So if a young couple have a baby, and mom, after a fight with the father of the baby and in a drug induced fog dumps junior off at the FD, the guy has no recourse?
This is one of the many possible scenarios that cause me to conclude that the whole concept of "safe havens" where mothers can drop off unwanted babies "no questions asked", is unworkable. Even most young and/or poorly educated mothers can figure out that most likely, someone WILL try to locate her and ask questions, including who the father is and whether he may want the baby (and with DNA testing, may well be able to trace the baby to HER, if the father turns up and volunteers to be tested in an effort to find the baby). So if she really wants to be rid of the baby, she just tosses it in a dumpster or some other location where it won't survive and is unlikely to be found. So if a girl has decided that for whatever reason, she urgently doesn't want to be found and/or doesn't want the father to be identified (voluntarily or otherwise), she'd better skip the "safe haven" and just finish the baby off. There are no easy answers to difficult problems. The "safe haven" laws are an attempt at an easy answer, but have been almost totally ineffective.