Nebraska Lawmakers Agree on Safe-Haven Age Limit:
Nebraska is now going to the other side of the spectrum. They’re going to change their safe haven law to limit drop-offs to the age of three days. That’s a big change from up to 17-years-old.
However, Gov. Dave Heineman said that he’d prefer not to call a special session of the legislation and would rather correct the law in January.
So the Breeders have a little bit more than two months to drop off their kids in Nebraska.
Parents who left teen under safe haven law lose custody:
Remember the Michigan Breeders who drove all the way to Omaha to teach their kid ‘a lesson’? I guess that lesson is don’t take advantage of another state’s safe haven laws just to be an asshat. The Breeders in question have lost custody of not only their 13-year-old son that they dropped off in Omaha but they also lost custody of their 10 and 5-year-old sons and 3-year-old daughter.
The Breeders, Terri, and Terrance Martin have had been visited by DHS in the past for injuries to the teen.
Michigan mother may have used safe haven law as lesson:
Remember when I posted about the kid from Michigan who was dropped off in Nebraska? When I was posting it I thought there was no way that this was just to teach the kid a lesson like the kid from Iowa. Well, I was wrong.
The female Breeder, plus a grand-Breeder, and an aunt, all from Michigan, traveled all that way to Omaha just to teach her kid a lesson. Can you possibly imagine how that kid must have been feeling on the 11-hour car ride from Detroit to Omaha? That’s child abuse in itself.
The boy was dropped off with luggage, additional clothing and $10, the affidavit says. He told police that his mother “has high stress” and “couldn’t deal with him anymore,” the affidavit says.
So you don’t think that dropping this kid off a couple of states away wasn’t high stress for him?
I seriously hope both states file charges against this Breeder.
10th Safe Haven Case: Michigan Boy:
Another out-of-state teen has been dropped off at one of Nebraska’s safe havens. This time the 13-year-old was not dropped off from across the border in Iowa but from Michigan.
Let’s just say this trip started in Detroit and ended in Omaha. That’s an 11-hour trip.
When Nebraska instituted this law I don’t think they wanted to become the nation’s dumping ground for unwanted teens.
Maybe if the breeder put as much effort into parenting as they did into dropping the kid off this wouldn’t be an issue.
Teen abandoned under safe-haven law back with family:
Remember the Iowa girl who was dropped off at a Nebraska safe haven? Well, she’s back with her grandparents.
It seems that they were making good on a threat to drop her off there if she didn’t do what they say.
No charges are being pressed at this time.
My dad threatened to leave me at Sears when I was a kid and he commanded enough respect from me that I thought he would do it. He never did though.
Man Who Left Children Asks For Visitation Rights:
Here we are back in Nebraska with their wacky safe haven law stories.
This time the father of the 9 kids that were all dropped off at once is now petitioning for visitation rights.
Gary Staton, who dropped off the Staton 9, was in court this past Wednesday seeking visitation right for the 9 children he left at a safe haven.
What do you think dear reader? Should he be allowed visitation or since he dropped them at a safe haven should he not have any visitation rights? What say you?
Names of Girls Found in Maryland Freezer Released:
There’s been more news in the case of Frog Clown over there, Renee Bowman. She’s the one who was abusing her adopted child when police found the corpses of two of her other adopted children in her freezer.
The girls that were found in the freezer have now been identified as 9-year-old Jasmine Nicole Bowman and 11-year-old Minnet Cecelia Bowman. Their exact ages at the time of their deaths have not been determined yet.
Frog Clown has not been charged with their deaths as of yet. I’m assuming they’re waiting on autopsy results before filing charges on the girls’ deaths. She is still being held on child abuse charges.
9th Safe Haven Case Reported Tuesday:
The 17th child was dropped off at a safe haven under Nebraska’s new wide-open safe haven law.
If you haven’t been following the story Nebraska recently passed a safe haven law that not only allows newborns to be dropped off at a ‘safe haven’ but children up to the age of 17 as well.
The number of 17 is a little misleading since one man dropped off nine of his kids.
Of course with the Nebraska safe haven stories I’ve been posting there has to be a twist. This time it’s that the 14-year-old girl isn’t from Nebraska but she’s from Iowa. In Iowa, the safe haven laws only apply to infants up to two weeks old.
This brings up an interesting dilemma in my mind. Is this a Nebraska safe haven case or an Iowa abandonment case. How do states handle safe haven cases when the child is from another state?
I guess in other states they wouldn’t be able to tell since the kids being dropped off can’t even talk.
Police: Remains May Have Been Moved Several Times:
More details about Frog Clown over there (Renee Bowman) and her adopted foster children whose bodies were found in Bowman’s freezer.
Police are saying that they believed the girls died while the ‘family’ was living in Rockland, Md. and that the bodies had been moved multiple times.
The one girl who was still alive had extensive injuries.
Charging documents described the third girl’s injuries as “extensive open, infected sores and lesions” and “eyes scarred in the corners.”
And this is how police were tipped off…
Neighbor Phillip Garrett found the girl walking barefoot on a gravel road in a blood-soaked T-shirt. He said she was covered in bruises. Garrett, 21, who lives two houses down from Bowman, said he brought the girl to a neighbor’s house, called 911 and ordered her a pizza. She indicated she had last eaten on Tuesday when her father was at the home, said Garrett, who realized he had met her mother once and described her as “frazzled.”
And as I predicted Bowman was still receiving a $2,400 stipend for the girls even after two had died.
The D.C. Child and Family Services Agency is really feeling the heat now especially since this is not the first tragedy they’ve been linked to.
Fund established to help nine abandoned children:
This is an update on the 9 kids who were dropped off by his father under Nebraska’s new wide-open safe haven law.
The kids, known as the Staton children, have been placed with other members of their family.
A fund has also been started for them. You can make a donation for them at any Wells Fargo Bank. I’m not positive if that’s in NE only or if that’s bank-wide.
At least some positive things are coming out of this story.