The Seymour City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve the installation of a Safe Haven Baby Box at one of its fire stations.
Columbus North High School Student Hunter Wart raised $10,000 to get a Baby Box installed in the City of Columbus. But officials there opted not to install it, so Wart headed to Seymour instead.
"In Seymour it came down to basically no cost to the taxpayers," says Seymour Mayor Craig Leudeman. "And if we can save one life by installing this it was ultimately deemed that we needed to do that."
The Seymour chapter of the Knights of Columbus will cover any additional costs related to the Baby Box.
The state's Safe Haven Law allows anyone to surrender a newborn at a hospital or a police or fire department without any questions.
Baby Boxes from the nonprofit organization Safe Haven Baby Box give people an additional option: to place a baby in a protected box that is accessible from the outside of a building. An alarm system then notifies staff inside.
This will be the seventh Safe Haven Baby Box in Indiana.
