The City of San Antonio plans to take advantage of a change to state law that will allow parents to surrender their newborn babies in special, alarmed boxes at fire stations and other designated spots.
The state’s Safe Haven law, also known as the Baby Moses law, was first passed in 1999. It allows parents who are unable to care for their children to legally and safely surrender them up until they are 60 days old by handing them over at However, the birth parent had to physically give the baby over to someone at those locations. They could not simply leave the child outside, which is against the law.
READ MORE: Where can you safely surrender a baby? Recent San Antonio incident shows need for more education “What kind of fear would she feel? What kind of humiliation might she feel in doing something like that?” he said. Starting Sep. 1, birth parents will also be able to surrender their child at designated safe spots that have special “Baby Boxes” on site. The boxes, rigged with alarms to alert medical professionals, would allow the birth parents to leave a child safely without face-to-face interaction.
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Lindsey Carnett, Author at San Antonio ReportLindsey Carnett covers the environment, science and utilities for the San Antonio Report. A native San Antonian, she graduated from Texas A&M University in 2016 with a degree in telecommunication media studies and holds a master's from Bellevue University. She is a board member of the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists and previously worked at the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and the San Antonio Express-News.
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