A healthy baby is the first infant to be anonymously dropped off at one of Kentucky's 'baby box' safe surrender locations.
FILE - Monica Kelsey, firefighter and medic who is president of Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc., poses with a prototype of a baby box, where parents could surrender their newborns anonymously, outside her fire station on Feb. 26, 2015, in Woodburn, Ind. A healthy baby is the first infant to be anonymously dropped off at one of Kentucky's"baby box" safe surrender locations.
The baby is the 24th in the country to be surrendered at one of more than 130 baby boxes and drawers the organization has established across nine states. Gov. Andy Beshear signed a law in 2021 that allows the use of baby boxes for children less than 30 days old. The law requires the boxes to be located at police stations, fire stations or hospitals that are staffed 24 hours a day. It also requires equipping them with a notification system to alert the first responders on site that a child has been placed inside the box.
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