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BP CARRION CALLS FOR GREATER PROMOTION OF ‘SAFE HAVEN’ LAW

By Lorna Montalvo

Citing a recent rise in baby abandonment and infanticide in the Bronx, Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., released a report on Thursday, February 15, calling on the city and state to better publicize the so-called safe-haven law, which allows parents to leave unwanted newborns at hospitals, firehouses, EMS stations or police precincts without penalty.