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All the details of this story only make me wonder more about the rest of the story.

Smyrna mom who abandoned son: He’s coming back | ajc.com

Brown said she ran out of options in Georgia, where she feared her son would wind up in juvenile detention on a theft conviction. “I just felt that after all these years, the system had failed me as a parent and my child,” she said.

Another theft that is just funny in its wrongness.  Glad to know that there wasn’t a body inside.

Coroner vehicle stolen

Authorities are investigating the theft of a county-owned sport utility vehicle from the home of Forsyth County Coroner Lauren McDonald late last week.

Since the state of Nebraska has no age cap on their safe haven law, they are now hosting twenty children over the age of one year, who have arrived since September.

I find it most interesting that the court has to decide if the twelve year old boy from Smyrna should be reunited with his family.  I realize it is a legal issue.  But if a mother drives from Georgia to Nebraska to drop off her child safely; she has probably thought about the legality (that she won’t be arrested if she takes him to Nebraska), assumes that he’ll receive care, and is totally desperate.  Of course, I don’t know these people.  So I’m just drawing those ideas from the news story.

I also find it interesting that the article states that most safe haven laws have a three day age cap.  Really?  Three days?  When many infants scream incessantly for the first three months of their lives?

Smyrna boy, 12, dropped in Nebraska ’safe haven’ | ajc.com

A Smyrna mother traveled nearly 1,000 miles to abandon her 12-year-old son at a Nebraska hospital Saturday night, authorities said.

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I hope you don’t have a pervert in your neighborhood.  But knowledge is power right?  Family Watchdog uses state public records to show the addresses of registered sex offenders.