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This story would fall into the " only in America " category.
It seems that the state of Nebraska has been having a problem with parents dropping their children off at local hospitals and then leaving them there for the state to take charge of. This does happen all over this country, but in Nebraska, the children being left behind are not newborns, as is usual, but teenagers. some as old as 18.
LINCOLN, Neb. – The mother was running out of more than patience when she abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital over the weekend under Nebraska's safe-haven law. She was also running out of time: She knew that state lawmakers would soon meet in a special session to amend the ill-fated law so that it would apply to newborns only.
To the state's surprise and embarrassment, more than half of the 31 children legally abandoned under the safe-haven law since it took effect in mid-July have been teenagers.
But state officials may have inadvertently made things worse with their hesitant response to the problem: The number of drop-offs has almost tripled to about three a week since Gov. Dave Heineman announced on Oct. 29 that lawmakers would rewrite the law.
This does not say to much about these children's parents. What a waste of some human beings. drop your teenagers off so that they become wards of the state? The parents should be prosecuted.
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