Your Help Needed!
Police have released a photo to the public in the hopes of gaining help finding the parents of an abandoned infant. The baby died just this past January. The girl was wrapped in a striped towel, which hopefully could jog a memory and bring the culprit to justice. A neighbor attempted to perform CPR on […]
Baby Finally Gets Justice
A mother in Baton Rouge has been charged with first degree murder of her newborn baby. The case is actually almost a decade old, but police never gave up on the case. When it was revisited recently, the DNA was compared to a few suspects who were questioned at the time. Joann King, 28 was […]
Baby Left Alone in Apartment
This story is a new kind of sad. A two-month-old baby girl was left alone in an apartment for up to 3 days when police finally found her. Her parents had been arrested the day before, but neighbors say they heard no noise in the apartment for a few days prior to that. The only […]
Changes for Wisconsin Safe Haven
As of the time that this article is being written, Wisconsin has the shortest Safe Haven window in the country. For those of you not familiar with Safe Haven laws, it means that parents who are unwilling or unable to care for newborn babies can drop them off at an approved location like a hospital […]
Refugee Sung Loses Parental Rights
Nunu Sung’s fate has finally been decided by a DuPage County judge. If you remember, Sung was a refugee from Myanmar who gave birth outside and left her newborn son cold and naked behind some bushes. She has maintained throughout this ordeal that she has intended on coming back for the boy. The judge rejected […]
Mother Gives Birth and Leaves Child in Backyard
My initial reaction to today’s story was: “Well, this is ridiculous!” A 35-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy, then wrapped him in a towel and left him on the ground in her backyard overnight. The woman Kimberly Lee claims that she thought the baby was not alive at birth. Yet, her 13-year-old son […]
Missouri Baby Survives Stab Wounds
No one is really sure what happened in this case. The only facts we can see so far are that a mother took her baby into the woods near her Missouri home and when the police found them, both had knife wounds. The baby survived despite having her throat slit. There has been a lot […]
Baby Needs Your Help
The baby that was found on a doorstep in Washington D.C. has died. We reported on this story not long ago. The baby appeared to be no more than a few days old. No official cause of death has been given pending autopsy results. Now police are asking for YOUR help! If anyone has any […]
Age Restrictions not very Restrictive
A woman unable to care for her 6-month-old baby dropped her son off at a Chicago fire station recently. Yes, the baby was well-over the state’s age limit for Safe Haven drop-offs, but as the article points out, what good will come of arresting her? The baby did not appear to have suffered any abuse […]
Tearjerker: Infant Abandonment
This is one of the most well-written and heartbreaking stories of infant abandonment I have ever read. It is so well-written that I am not going to retell it in my own words because I do not feel like I could do it justice. Please promote Safe Haven laws. If this article doesn’t get to […]
