baby box

Indiana allows someone to surrender a baby under 30 days old anonymously to a hospital, fire station, or other emergency medical professionals.

Less than four months after the box was installed, a baby has been surrendered in Monroe County.

A northern Indiana police officer and his wife have adopted an infant months after she was surrendered at a baby box.

Baby boxes are built into the sides of fire stations or hospitals. The temperature-controlled boxes open from the outside and allow people to surrender infants anonymously.

A recent surge in surrenders this year includes three babies at a Carmel station. Kelsey said there are currently dozens more boxes in the works.

Greene County now has a place for mothers to legally surrender newborn babies they are unable or unwilling to care for.

Greene County now has a place for mothers to legally surrender newborn babies they are unable or unwilling to care for.