Posted on 05/31/2024 6:11:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Two newborn babies have been surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Hobbs, New Mexico, since its installation last year, officials announced.
A newborn baby boy was placed in a baby box at a Hobbs fire station last week, and first responders quickly found the baby “safe and sound,” KOB4 reported on Friday, quoting city officials.
First responders promptly transported the baby to Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital for evaluation, according to the report. The child is now in the custody of the Children, Youth, and Families Department.
Baby boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe conditions, potentially leaving them to die. Baby boxes are temperature-controlled incubators often built into exterior walls of fire stations, police stations, and hospitals that can be accessed from inside. At-risk mothers can safely and legally place their newborns inside. Once the baby is inside the baby box the outside door locks and the mother has time to leave before an alarm goes off alerting first responders or hospital staff to the child’s presence.
The baby is then quickly removed and sent to a hospital for a wellness check. From there, the baby is usually placed into state custody and is often quickly adopted.
The push for baby boxes in New Mexico came after Alexis Avila was seen on surveillance video in 2022 throwing a trash bag with her newborn boy inside into a dumpster in Hobbs, New Mexico, when she was 18.
“The most tragic thing that we can imagine would be a parent that just gave birth, being in such a situation that they feel they have no other alternative but to, you know, place their newborn in a dumpster or some other receptacle,” state Sen. Gregory Baca (R) told local media in February.
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Put them next to all the baby killing facilities.
Might save a few.
It was only providence that dumpster baby was found alive or found at all. After spending six hours in the January cold, a trio of dumpster divers appeared in the early evening. They heard a soft cry and thought it was a kitten or puppy. Their surprise when they opened the trash bag was also caught on the surveillance camera and the woman immediately cradled the baby and put him in the warm car while calling 911.
The police officers that arrived and the community at large were horrified by what had just occurred as it was all caught on video. For a young woman to have done such an act shows how far our society has fallen when there no consequences for the taking of human life in the womb and this act was just an extension of that.
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