Posted on 01/07/2026 3:48:31 AM PST by Morgana
ATOKA, Tenn. - A tiny and innocent life was saved recently, thanks to a box outside a Mid-South fire station and a parent who decided to use it.
Fire officials said that someone over the weekend surrendered an infant at a Safe Haven Baby Box at Atoka Fire Station No. 1 in the Tennessee town about 25 miles northeast of Memphis.
The boxes allow mothers of newborns to safely and legally give away their babies without being prosecuted.
"What happened over the course of this weekend is exactly why we have this box," Atoka Fire Chief Bill Scott said. "It prevented that child from being found unalive in a dumpster or in a box on the side of the road."
The Safe Haven Baby Box has a silent alarm, allowing firefighters to respond quickly. Fire officials said this was the first use of the Atoka baby box in 25 years.
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I have no problem with that.
“unalive” 🙄
Very wonderful that the mother took advantage of this.
And you’re right that we need more stories like this. It’s a great opportunity to feature this in the media, build it up, give kudos etc., as info to other women. Even though these boxes have been available for decades, I wonder how many young women and men are even aware of it.
Probably media won’t be too enthusiastic to focus on it. They prefer abortion.
Atoka is a town of 10,000 so it is not surprising that they have not had an abandoned baby in 25 years.
My chapter of the Knights of Columbus is considering assisting in the purchase of a Safe Haven Baby Box for a local Fire Station.
They are not cheap. But saving the life of a baby has no price.
Pretty much every young person knows about adoption and yet many still get abortions.
Many say that they can't bare the thought of living their lives wondering what has happened to the baby they gave up.
Of course if they kill their baby they know exactly what has happened to the child they killed.
Why not wonder about living with that knowledge?
My husband is one of those, born in 1949, whose 16 year old mother in rural Ohio gave him up and Catholic Charities adopted him out at 11 months old. His adoptive parents were good people and good parents.
How sad that people would kill their baby so it can avoid a hypothetical bad life that statistically is unlikely to happen.
As an aside, those nuns took very good care of him with lots of attention because there are no attachment issues with this man at all. He is a wonderful loving big personality guy and I wish I could meet his birth mother (who if alive would be 92) and just worship and thank her for allowing him to have his life.
Lovely story. God bless you and your husband, his mother, and those nuns.
There is a Safe Surrender box at the fire station up the street from me.
I am from rural Ohio myself. Good people there generally.
It is a shame that Catholic Charities aren't in that business any more.
Political correctness injected into law forced them out of true charitable work.
And now we have homosexuals buying babies. And the children are predictably victimized.
Hey my saying is “it’s better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it”.
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