09-22-2013, 01:28 PM
Alabama has Safe Haven laws.
As long as the hospital has an emergency room, it qualifies as a place where newborns under 72 hours old can be abandoned without the parents fearing prosecution for nonsupport, abandonment, or endangering the welfare of the child in the state of Alabama. Not sure that includes actual delivery of the baby in the hospital and testing positive for drugs though.
This story is weird; wonder if there's something more to it. Very odd that LE has released a photo to the media for a drug addict abandoning a newborn.
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Wonder if they fear the mother may not have left on her own accord or suspect that she's tied to something else.
Just eight hours after first arriving, the woman was caught on CCTV leaving the hospital without her baby, carrying a bag of clothing.
Authorities say she left with two unknown black males.
When she was admitted to the hospital, the woman said she was 22 and from Georgia but used a fake social security number.
'We're concerned about her as well,' Tuscaloosa Police Sgt Michael Chaisson told Tuscaloosanews.com. 'We want to talk to her and make sure that she's OK.'
In any event, whether there's more to it or not, I agree that this story being positioned as it is sends the wrong message to parents who are going to abandon their newborns, one way or another. Stupid.
As long as the hospital has an emergency room, it qualifies as a place where newborns under 72 hours old can be abandoned without the parents fearing prosecution for nonsupport, abandonment, or endangering the welfare of the child in the state of Alabama. Not sure that includes actual delivery of the baby in the hospital and testing positive for drugs though.
This story is weird; wonder if there's something more to it. Very odd that LE has released a photo to the media for a drug addict abandoning a newborn.
Wonder if they fear the mother may not have left on her own accord or suspect that she's tied to something else.
Just eight hours after first arriving, the woman was caught on CCTV leaving the hospital without her baby, carrying a bag of clothing.
Authorities say she left with two unknown black males.
When she was admitted to the hospital, the woman said she was 22 and from Georgia but used a fake social security number.
'We're concerned about her as well,' Tuscaloosa Police Sgt Michael Chaisson told Tuscaloosanews.com. 'We want to talk to her and make sure that she's OK.'
In any event, whether there's more to it or not, I agree that this story being positioned as it is sends the wrong message to parents who are going to abandon their newborns, one way or another. Stupid.