Safe Haven Law

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

The body of a female infant was found at Lake Ft. Phantom, north of Abilene, Texas, on Saturday, according to police.

The baby girl was born on July 30 and is now in the custody of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, state officials announced.

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

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

The infant surrender marks the fiftieth baby box surrender nationwide since Safe Haven Baby Boxes began in 2015.

Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe circumstances, potentially leaving them to die.

Two newborns have been surrendered to the first Safe Haven Baby Box in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to officials.

Police found a dead newborn baby girl wrapped in a towel and discarded in a trash bin on the University of Tampa campus in Florida on Sunday. 

Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in the woods or trash bins, potentially leaving them 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 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 baby boy was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Belen, New Mexico, on Tuesday afternoon.

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 little boy surrendered to a fire station in Louisville, Kentucky, as a newborn has been adopted after more than 500 days in foster care. 

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

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

A baby girl who was abandoned in Mulberry, Florida, shortly after her birth in January has been adopted nearly a year later.

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.

Missouri has joined the growing list of states installing Safe Haven Baby Boxes, which are secured incubators where mothers in crisis can surrender their newborns.

The baby girl, who is the fourth baby surrendered at the fire station in the past 16 months, already has a new home.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at the 2nd Platoon of Kokomo Fire Department in Indiana, Fox News Digital reported Friday. 

The firefighter who was stationed at Ocala Fire Rescue headquarters and discovered the baby girl with a shoelace tying off her umbilical cord is now her adoptive father.

A baby girl was left in a Safe Haven Baby Box on Tuesday night at Okolona Fire Station One in Louisville, Kentucky, WLKY reported. 

The baby boy was surrendered to the Baby Box at Knoxville Fire Station 17 just after midnight, approximately 30 minutes after his birth.

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. 

An investigation was launched when two infants were found dead in the garbage on Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio.

An infant was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at an Indiana fire station, just four months after the box was installed.

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.