A Split Over 'Safe Haven' Baby Boxes

A Split Over 'Safe Haven' Baby Boxes
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Two decades ago, police medic Tim Jaccard was outside a New York courthouse when he received a call for an emergency inside the building.

"Baby not breathing," the call said. Jaccard bolted inside, but it was too late: The baby girl, her placenta still attached, had been drowned in a toilet bowl in a bathroom.

It wasn't long afterward that Jaccard says he found a baby girl who had been suffocated and stashed in a plastic bag near an office building. Within the next five weeks, he says, he came across two deceased baby boys, one discarded in a recycling bin and the other buried in a backyard and unearthed by a dog.



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