Child Abandonment - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a 13-year-old and his infant brother. Their mother abandoned the siblings in Mexico three weeks ago, officials report.

CONROE, Texas — Officials with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office confirm they identified the father of a young boy apparently abandoned on a neighbor’s doorstep by his mother Wednesday night.