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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adoption Centers Help with Questions
This article, again, was sparked by the Burkle infanticide. It has quite a lot more information, however. One adoption expert said that his organization gets many calls from mothers who do not know what to do after they deliver. First, this worries me since there appears to be many women who are not giving birth […]
Court in Session on 2009 Infanticide
Today’s horrific tale of infanticide actually happened in 2009, but I do not believe we reported on it and the court case has recently started. Juana Valencia, 21, was in high school at the time of the incident. She gave birth at work and put the baby in a plastic bag and threw it in […]
