Nebrasks must be even sorrier about its poorly-crafted Safe Haven law: now people are coming from out of state to drop their children off.
"An Iowa teenager who was abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska's safe-haven law is back home after her grandparents dropped her off to teach her a lesson but soon changed their minds, officials said Thursday.
The 14-year-old girl from across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was left at Creighton University Medical Center on Tuesday. She was the 17th child left under a state law that took effect in July but was the first from out of state.
Her abandonment set off concerns that Nebraska's broadly written law could make the state a dumping ground for unwanted children. The law absolves anyone of abandonment charges for leaving a child of any age at a state-licensed hospital."
See the rest of the article at http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/safe.haven.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
In response, the Nebraska Legislature has "scheduled a hearing." http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/nebraska.safe.haven/index.html
Really? It doesn't think that it's obvious what to do? Curious....
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