A baby boy was left inside Tennessee’s first Safe Haven Baby Box early Saturday morning, approximately 30 minutes after his birth, according to the Knoxville Fire Department.
A New Mexico woman was sentenced to 16 years in prison Monday after abandoning her newborn son in a dumpster in the city of Hobbs in January of last year.
An infant was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at an Indiana fire station, just four months after the box was installed.
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.
Firefighters in Bowling Green, Kentucky, last week found the first baby placed into their Safe Haven Baby Box, which was just installed in December.
A newborn baby was surrendered to Florida’s “first and only” Safe Haven Baby Box at Ocala’s Fire Rescue headquarters.
