{"id":210703,"date":"2019-09-18T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210703"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:10:24","slug":"safe-haven-baby-girl-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/safe-haven-baby-girl-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby girl saved by Safe Haven Baby Box the first month it was installed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than 30 days after installing a Safe Haven Baby Box, Franciscan Health Hospital in Hammond, Indiana, received a healthy newborn baby girl. ABC7 Chicago reported<\/a> the baby was retrieved by first responders in less than 90 seconds. An alarm sounded when the baby was placed in the box, and the emergency department of the hospital responded.<\/p>\n

ABC7 Chicago interviewed Monica Kelsey, founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes<\/a>. Kelsey was adopted, and later learned that she was abandoned as a newborn. After seeing a baby box at a church in Cape Town, South Africa, where parents could surrender a newborn without face-to-face interaction, Kelsey started Safe Haven Baby Boxes to create a way for mothers to ensure their child\u2019s care, and educate people about Safe Haven Laws, which allow parents of newborns to surrender a newborn without facing legal consequences.<\/p>\n

READ: Mother saves her baby\u2019s life through Florida Safe Haven law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In regards to the newborn recently placed in the hospital baby box, Kelsey said, \u201cThat is my hope and my goal for this little girl, is to grow up knowing she was loved from the beginning. Her mom just felt that this was best for her, and hopefully one day she changes the world and does something amazing.”<\/p>\n