Texas’s First Safe Haven Baby Box Installed in Abilene
Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in the woods or trash bins, potentially leaving them to die.
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.
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.
A newborn baby was surrendered to Florida’s “first and only” Safe Haven Baby Box at Ocala’s Fire Rescue headquarters.
A couple named Ben and Gina have four older children, but when they decided to become foster parents, they got some exciting news.
A newborn boy was found dead in a duffel bag at a Near North Chicago fire station early Saturday, the Chicago Police Department said.
An Alaska woman said she found an abandoned baby along with a note stating the parents did not have enough money to feed the infant, WSYX reported Monday.
A resident found an abandoned newborn with a heartbreaking note attached to his clothing on the doorstep of an apartment in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday.