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“Better than we could have asked”: Couple shares baby box adoption story

Bente Bouthier

Indiana allows someone to surrender a baby under 30 days old anonymously to a hospital, fire station, or other emergency medical professionals.
County's first baby box infant recovered

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