Wisconsin to Receive Safe Haven Baby Boxes

  • Source: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
  • Published: 03/29/2024 12:00 AM

VIDEO: Tragedy in Whitewater is prompting change a year after a newborn was found dead in a field. Two municipalities are getting Safe Haven Baby Boxes. Both communities hope this will help parents in distress. An anonymous climate-controlled Safe Haven Baby Box will soon be placed on a wall on the side of the Whitewater Fire Department. Emergency medical services chief Jason Dean said the new essential tool is in response to the newborn’s death that happened last March. "Our main job within fire and EMS is to preserve life and property and if we can save a life and this is a resource we can give them then that’s what we want to do," Dean said. The trauma sticks with Michelle Shilts of Elkhorn. "It just absolutely broke my heart and 20 years after Wisconsin passed the Safe Haven law, that still shouldn’t be happening here," Shilts said.



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