LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The drop-off of an infant at a Nebraska hospital could be part of a national trend marked by more use of safe-haven laws.
The director of a national group that tracks use of safe-haven laws says drop-offs are on the rise. Tim Jaccard of the National Safe Haven Alliance said there have been a total of 31 relinquishments so far this year in the 31 states the group is able to track.
There were 44 drop-offs all of last year.
The laws are meant to prevent infant deaths by abandonment.
The CEO of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says officials are still trying to find the mother of a baby boy left at an Alliance hospital.
The infant was left there Monday night, just a few hours after being born.
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