The Florida nonprofit Safe Haven for Newborns has now saved more than 400 infants since opening the agency over 20 years ago.
Safe Haven for NewbornsSafe Haven for Newborns partners with fire stations statewide to offer designated safe spaces for individuals to drop off their unharmed baby with no questions asked.
“One night I am in my home all alone, not paying any attention, flipping through a magazine and my finger stopped on a page. And I was compelled to look at that page and was about the escalating crisis of infant abandonment in the world, and I believe that that was a message, at that moment, that’s what I should be doing devoting the rest of my life to trying to save babies,” Silverio said.
The employee denied the offer and the mother walked away and left the child behind, who is now in foster care. Since the child was more than a week old, it would not meet the Safe Haven law requirement which states: “Parents can anonymously surrender infants up to seven days old and grants the parents immunity from criminal prosecution unless there is actual or suspected child abuse or neglect.”“All of the services that we do provide we offer to everybody at no cost,” he said. “The help comes at the referrals for counseling, shelters, maternity homes, providing temporary motels, abuse issues, transportation services, and suicide calls, unfortunately,” Silverio said.
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