Another teenage girl abandoned at Neb. hospital

[SoCalNative]

OMAHA, Neb. – State officials say a 15-year-old girl left at an Omaha hospital is the 21st child abandoned under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services' Todd Landry says the girl from Douglas County, Neb., was left Monday evening at Creighton University Medical Center.

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Most state lawmakers have agreed to amend the law when the Legislature reconvenes in January so that it applies only to infants up to 3 days old.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven;_ylt=AkxhslM4dDlTElH1deuIa06s0NUE

[Turbineguy]

1. Teenagers do seem to make

such attractive targets for being abandoned by their parents.

[Shardik]

2. So do 21 year olds.

Especially when they have their own kids.

I'm poorer now than when she was under my roof.

But I love her and the grandson and wouldn't abandon them. It's hard for me to fathom these people.

[TwilightGardener]

3. So, they're going to go from NO age limits to 3 days old? Geez, no middle ground there.

Part of me worries about what will happen to all these older kids and teens who would have been dropped off.