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Just days after a baby was found in a dumpster<\/a> in Hobbs, New Mexico, a city in another part of the state is set to get its first safe haven baby box.<\/p>\n

According to KRQE<\/a>, the city of\u00a0Espa\u00f1ola worked for two years to secure the funding and work through the legal red tape that comes with installing one of the boxes. \u201cWe are finally at the point where we\u2019re going to install our first baby box in the Espa\u00f1ola Fire Station and we are thrilled about that,\u201d said Javier Sanchez, the city’s mayor. \u201cWe\u2019re getting more awareness about what the reality is out there in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Safe Haven Baby Box is a national organization that works to install safe, climate-controlled boxes where a parent can legally surrender a newborn child according to the state’s safe haven laws. Founder Monica Kelsey was herself abandoned as an infant. Each box is triggered with an alarm so that once an infant is placed inside, help will arrive within moments. In New Mexico<\/a>, a person can surrender an infant to a hospital, health care clinic licensed by the state, or the safe haven baby box within 90 days after birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur attorneys have finalized the last ticking points that we were concerned with,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cI think that we are now really on solid ground to have our city managers sign that in to get it going and we can start going from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Heroic teens in Russia save newborn abandoned in below zero temperatures<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While the case of a young woman tossing her child in a dumpster in Hobbs has shocked the nation recently, it was another heartbreaking case that spurred members of the\u00a0Espa\u00f1ola community to advocate for a box in their area. Three years ago, a father called police<\/a> to report that he was concerned that his preborn child’s mother was no longer pregnant, but she wouldn’t tell him what happened to the infant. Police later found the baby dead in the trash. \u201cIt happened here, we found a baby in the trash, and to hear it happened again is devastating,\u201d said John Wickersham, assistant fire chief of the Espa\u00f1ola Fire Department. \u201cIt broke our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanchez also said he’s already spoken with the mayor of Hobbs about the need for these boxes throughout the entire state of New Mexico.\u00a0\u201cAs we got to talking, we said, we need to put one of these in all of our cities. We decided we\u2019ll bring this up at our next mayor\u2019s conference so we can talk to all of the mayors who are interested and we can roll this out in more than just one location,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to Fox News<\/a>, the\u00a0Espa\u00f1ola baby box could be in operation as early as March.<\/p>\n

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Just days after a baby was found in a dumpster in Hobbs, New Mexico, a city in another part of the state is set to get its first safe haven baby box. 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