Politics & Government

3 Safe Surrenders Logged in May

Supervisor Don Knabe announced Friday that three newborns have been surrendered to be placed with adoptive parents as part of the Safe Surrender program Knabe initiated in 2001.

Supervisor Don Knabe announced Friday that three newborns were handed over to county authorities as part of the Safe Surrender program over the last two weeks of May.

The program, which Knabe initiated in 2001, allows newborns younger than three days old to be handed into protective custody and placed with an adoptive family approved by the state's Department of Children and Family Services.

"I am incredibly pleased to learn of our third Safe Surrender in the month of May,” Knabe said. “While these situations could end in disaster, instead we are given hope that an infant will have a healthy and happy life."

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The third surrender of the year and the month of May was made at Torrance Hospital on May 31 after the mother of a newborn girl decided to surrender the child.

The second surrender occurred just two days before at Los Angeles County Fire Station #104 in Winnetka after the newborn boy's birth at home. On May 21, the first surrender of 2011 was made when a mother handed over her newborn girl at a West Covina hospital.

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So far, 86 newborns have been put up for adoption as a part of the program and seven newborns were surrendered through the program in 2010.

For more information on Safe Surrender, visit the program website.


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