Safe-haven law gets new age limit
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Lawmakers gave preliminary approval to a new 30-day age limit for children who can be legally abandoned under the state’s safe-haven law.
The restriction is designed to stop parents and guardians from using the law to relinquish older children.
The state’s safe-haven law is the only one in the country without an age limit and has led to the abandonment of 34 children -- none of them infants -- since July.
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