Thursday - October 09, 2008
Nebraska parents abandon teens in backfire of newborn drop-off policy . WhooHoo. news from the USA
I guess most have seen this right?
If not .... what a hoot. Woody Allen used to joke about his parents hiring kidnappers to remove him. But that was a gag. I think.
Anyway ... seems these folks are really serious about getting rid of troubling teens.
A scheme in Nebraska intended to allow desperate young mothers to abandon their newborn child without facing prosecution has backfired after a string of parents delivered their troublesome teenagers to the authorities.
By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 8:53PM BST 08 Oct 2008Seventeen children - many of them in their teens - have been abandoned since a new law in July allowed parents and guardians to leave their children at drop-off points at hospitals.
The rash of older children deposited has left state authorities struggling to cope. In the latest case this week - and the first involving a child from outside the state - a 14-year-old girl from Iowa was dropped off at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday.
State officials said the person who abandoned her could be prosecuted in the girl’s home state but authorities have so far been unable to do anything about the other cases because of the loose wording of its safe haven law.
Nebraska was the last state to introduce such legislation but it went much further than others. Instead of restricting those who could be abandoned to infants, as is the case elsewhere in the US, Nebraska effectively allowed it to apply to anyone up to the age of 18.
In the most serious case to date, a single father handed over nine of his 10 children - aged between 20 months and 17 - saying that he could no longer cope.
Other parents and guardians have brought in children, citing issues such as violence and disobedience as reasons for their abandonment.
The law stipulates that the child must be left in a state-approved hospital. A mother who tried to offload her 14-year-old son in September was foiled after she mistakenly tried to drop him off at a police station instead.
Dave Heineman, the state’s governor, has now pledged to tighten up the law so that it only applies to infants.
He appealed to fellow Nebraskans to take less drastic measures than abandonment if they were having trouble with children.
While conceding that raising a child can be “challenging at times”, he said: “Abandonment of an older child is potentially very devastating ... Nebraskans believe strongly in parental responsibility. The essential element defining any family is the knowledge that parents provide unconditional love for their children.”
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