Child Abandonment

The first baby box in Kansas has been installed in Hutchinson, providing at-risk parents with another option for safely surrendering newborns.

The Central Fire Station in Olde Towne Slidell, Louisiana, is set to be the home of the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.

An 18-year-old mother accused of placing her newborn baby in a dumpster is in the United States illegally, officials confirmed.

A newborn baby was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station in Fishers, Indiana, the Fishers Fire Department announced Monday.

Idaho has welcomed its first Safe Haven Baby Box, a device created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe conditions, potentially leaving them to die.

The baby girl has been placed with a foster family since being abandoned near a bayou in Harris County, Texas.

A third infant has been surrendered to the Safe Haven Baby Box at Fire Station #1 in Madison, Alabama, according to officials.

Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in the woods or trash bins, potentially leaving them to die.

An Ohio mother has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for leaving her 16-month-old daughter home alone to die.

Maine is expected to get its first Baby Box, a device created for at-risk mothers to surrender their newborns safely and anonymously.

A man and woman have been arrested in connection with an infant who was discovered dead in a trash bin in Hollywood, Florida.

A Florida mother has been jailed for allegedly abusing her baby, after attempting to sell her to a concerned stranger for $500 and abandoning her.

A newborn baby was surrendered to Missouri’s only Safe Haven Baby Box location, the Mehlville Fire chief said at a news conference on Monday.

A 21-year-old mother was arrested for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby girl in a Yonkers apartment building hallway — however, she has already been released due to New York’s bail reform laws, police said.

A baby girl police described as “a few days old” was found abandoned in the hallway of an apartment building in Yonkers on Tuesday night. 

Two people are in custody after a newborn baby girl was found behind dumpsters at a Mississippi mobile home park last week, officials said.

An infant was surrendered to Alabama’s first Safe Haven Baby Box, just days after installation, WAFF48 reported on Wednesday.

The first Safe Haven Baby Box infant surrender of 2024 happened at an Indiana fire station last week, according to officials.

An abandoned baby was discovered alive in a dumpster near an apartment building in Greenville, North Carolina, on Sunday morning.

The updated Newborn Safe Haven Act would expand the locations where parents can surrender a baby to include fire and police stations.

A bystander saved a newborn baby girl after witnessing her mother give birth and abandon her inside a trash can in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Madison County Coroner’s Office has released the autopsy report for a baby who was discovered in the back of a garbage truck in Ohio.

A fire station in Alabama is working to open the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box in the coming weeks.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Indiana, the seventh baby surrendered in the state and the sixteenth across the country this year. 

A Texas hospital is expected to open the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box, where at-risk mothers can safely surrender their newborns.

A Texas mother is accused of leaving her young daughters at home for hours to go gambling and drinking.

The mother of a newborn who was discovered abandoned and wrapped in a plastic bag nearly four years ago in Georgia has been arrested, PEOPLE reported.

The federal government ought to bring child abandonment charges against the parents, often illegally in the United States, of migrant children who are sent alone through a human smuggling pipeline operated by the Mexican drug cartels at the southern border, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) says.

A Texas mother was arrested in Mobile, Alabama, for allegedly leaving her children at home alone for more than two months, NBC News reported Friday.

A 25-year-old woman is accused of abandoning a newborn baby in a trash can at a gas station in California, according to police.

Two newborn babies were surrendered to Safe Haven Baby Boxes within two days of each other in Indiana, officials announced. 

Safe Haven Baby Boxes has established more than 130 baby boxes across nine states, according to the report.

An Oklahoma mother is accused of throwing her 1-month-old son into a dumpster, KXII reported on Monday.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the 6.5-pound newborn baby girl was left for dead on a 50-degree night, roughly an hour after her birth.

Texas couple Katharine and John McClain are getting lots of attention after making a shocking discovery at their home in Livingston.

Police in Mississippi have arrested one suspect after a toddler was abandoned outside a Goodwill store with a note and a change of clothes.