One More Way to Keep Babies Safe
Today I have a short article for you, but I really liked it. The catalyst for the article was a recent newborn drop-off at a Las Vegas hospital. Everything went smoothly and the baby is now in safe hands. The article reminded me of something I may have mentioned here on One By One Safe […]
Fitzpatrick Pleads Guilty to Receive Life in Prison
I have an update for you on the baby killed with a cinderblock. Christopher Fitzpatrick has pled guilty to first-degree murder of his baby girl and will receive life prison without parole. Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty if he agreed to testify against the mother, Jennifer Barrise. She is now facing charges […]
Ethics Journal Publishes After-Birth Abortion Paper
Just when I think the articles I read for this website can’t get any stranger… Two people, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva actually published a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics advocating baby murder. No, I am not kidding. They justified that if a baby is unwanted or puts undue burden financially on a family, it […]
Nadia Zahirudin is Sentenced
Wisconsin teen Nadia Zahirudin, 17, was sentenced for a case of child abandonment that occurred last May. Instead of taking her newborn to a nearby hospital, she elected to leave it by a church dumpster instead. Fortunately for the baby and for her, the baby survived. She did receive three years of probation, however. Three […]
Important Information for Louisianans
LOUISIANA RESIDENTS! Please read this article. It is a comprehensive look at Safe Haven guidelines and procedures in your state and could very well help you save a baby and protect yourself from criminal prosecution. I do not think anyone ever plans to murder or abandon a baby. It is too horrible to consider that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Infant Murders in Iowa
The article below points out that two of the atrocious recent cases of infanticide both occurred in Iowa. Although the Safe Haven laws have been in effect since 2001, the last baby saved by Safe Haven in Iowa was in 2009. This actually makes sense. If stories of safely relinquished infants had been in the […]
Child Welfare in Nebraska
Here is an interesting article on the state of child welfare in Nebraska. One point in particular I just touched on in a previous post. When Safe Haven was first enacted in Nebraska, any child under the age of 18 could be legally abandoned at an approved location. This caused dozens of teenagers to be […]
