News tagged with 'Abandonment'

A 14-year old Iowa girl was abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska's safe haven law. She is the 17th child and the first from another state to be abandoned. However, because the child is from Iowa, not Nebraska, the safe haven laws legal protection may not apply.

So far this month, 15 children, most of them teenagers, have been abandoned at hospitals under the state's new Safe Haven Laws.  The dire dilemma underscores how few mental health services are available for these out-of-control teens, and their out-of-options caregivers. 

9 children ranging in age from 1 to 17, have been abandoned at a Nebraska hospital under the states new Safe Haven law.  The law was intended to protect newborns whose parents want to relinquish custody, but lawmakers didn't forsee teens being abandoned.