Nebraska’s new safe-haven law is just the trick for you struggling parents.
Second out-of-state teen dropped at Omaha hospital.
A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state’s unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.
The boy from the Detroit area is the second teenager from outside Nebraska and 18th child overall abandoned in the state since the law took effect in July.
“I certainly recognize and can commiserate and empathize with families across our state and across the country who are obviously struggling with parenting issues, but this is not the appropriate way of dealing with them, whether you’re in Nebraska or whether you’re in another state,” said Todd Landry, who heads the state’s Department of Health and Human Services’ division of children and family services.
There was no sign the boy was in immediate danger before he was abandoned early Monday, but an investigation into the boy’s situation was still continuing, Landry said.
The boy has been placed in an emergency shelter. Landry said the family doesn’t appear to have ties to Nebraska and he wasn’t sure if the family had sought help in Michigan first.
Must be from Detroit. On the bright side, now that the kid is out of Detroit, he might actually have a fighting chance.
When reached for comment, a spokesman for the Obama campaign (who wished to remain anonymous) suggested that parents in this situation should consider all their choices and emphasized that “under the coming Obama administration, parents will have the option of terminating these types of unwanted pregnancies” so that parents aren’t punished for their mistakes.
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