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14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law; chid abandonment
Topic Started: Oct 8 2008, 07:05 PM (252 Views)
Dorfliedot
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14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gU_lifEWX5KODWJ-k3FlgP_SiE-wD93M1TL80
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law.


What are your views on this?

I think the parents should go to prison for it. To me they are bad parents.
Edited by Dorfliedot, Oct 8 2008, 07:06 PM.
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Am I reading the article right?
It seems a bit strange to just be able to go and 'dump' a child somewhere :huh:

I know sometimes people must have terrible and possibly genuine reasons for needing to seek help, but to abandon a child by dropping them off anywhere seems inconceivable to me :(
I go by many names......
some call me badger boy,
some call me wimpypimpy,
others call me totally silk,
some have been known to call me Pip,
some call me Cillit Bang...
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Yeah! That how seem to me too. Hick! I have a 24 year old son who lives with me. and he loves to agrue. however, I let him stay in my house for sake of his children. also, I know he has problems him self.
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Nebraska's safe haven law, sadly, has an age limit of under 18. A child can legally be abandoned in the state of Nebraska if they are under 18. It sounds as if the Nebraska legislature, which intended this to apply to infants and babies under one, will reconsider this in their next session.

There has been one man in Nebraska who abandoned 7 or 8 of his children. He "had" to keep one because she was 18. He said he had no job, his wife had died and he could no longer care for them.
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Then he should called Cps( children social services) to place them in foster home until he could have gotten on to his two feet.
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I agree. Dotty, but he chose to give up the children. In Nebraska, it was legal. I read today that they are calling a commission in November to discuss the issue and the law will be changed in January. I hope not too many children will be abandoned between now and when the new law goes into effect.
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Oct 10 2008, 01:57 AM
I agree. Dotty, but he chose to give up the children. In Nebraska, it was legal. I read today that they are calling a commission in November to discuss the issue and the law will be changed in January. I hope not too many children will be abandoned between now and when the new law goes into effect.
Me too. It is hard on the streets. I know. I was kicked out a girls group home on to the streets when I was 17. I wish I would knew the law back then. because, I do believe they could had got into trouble for doing that to me. However, I not sure if they could have or not.
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This particular child has been returned to her grandparents. Apparently, they were "teaching her a lesson". Not the right way to go about it.
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This law is absolutely horrible. It is interesting to me that the legislature does not want to call an emergency session to amend this terrible error; they really should.
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They should definitely call an emergency session of the Nebraska legislature. The legislator who sponsored this said he never, ever intended for it to apply to any child except for infants. We have a law here where you can abandon an infant within 72 hours of birth at a hospital or a police or fire station. That is aimed at people who just can't afford to keep their children. Those are the children he was trying to protect.
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Sometime people who been with someone for a long time often start think how things would been with another person. Sometimes they over look what they truely have until it to late to turn back.
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http://www.startribune.com/nation/30890954.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUJ
Another teenage child been abandon in Omaha Hospital.
A 13 year old boy.
Edited by Dorfliedot, Oct 14 2008, 12:14 AM.
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