EDGEWOOD, N.M. (KRQE) – The Town of Edgewood has changed course and will no longer create a place where parents who can’t care for their newborns can surrender them.
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The town was exploring options to install a Safe Haven Baby Box, however, it realized it did not have an area suitable for installation.
“We have found that local healthcare facilities are not open and staffed 24 hours per day. Local fire and law enforcement agencies have limited staffing, leading them to have concerns about the availability of first responders to be on-site 24/7,” Edgewood Community Liaison Linda Burke wrote in an email to KRQE.
Burke explained fire stations and police stations are available for in-person infant surrender, if needed. Under New Mexico’s Safe Haven law, infants 90 days of age or less can be handed to an authorized provider, such as hospitals, fire stations, or law enforcement agencies…