Here is Nebraska’s Safe Haven “Hall of Shame.”
1. September 1, 2008
male, 14
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha police station
NOTE: attempted
2. September 13, 2008
male, 15
Dumper: custodial maternal aunt
Place: Lincoln Bryan GHMC West
Special family status: in kinship care
3. September 13, 2008
male, 11
Dumper: maternal grandmother
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
Special family status: reportedly adopted by maternal grandmother
4. September 20, 2008
female, 13
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
5. September 23, 2008
male, 18
Dumper: self
Place: Grand Island St Francis MC
NOTE: attempted
September 24, 2008:
6. female, 1
7. male, 6
8. male, 7
9. female, 9
10. male, 11
11. female, 13
12. female, 14
13. male, 15
14. male, 17
Dumper: father
Place: Creighton UMC
15. September 24, 2008
male, 11
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
16. September 24, 2008
male, 15
Dumper: guardian maternal uncle
Place: Omaha, Immanuel MC
Special family status: in kinship care
17. October 5, 2008
unk, 12
Dumper: male
Place: Lincoln LGH West
18. October 5, 2008
male, 12,
Dumper: aunt at request of guardian maternal grandmother
Place: Omaha, Immanuel MC
Special Family Status: in kinship care
19. October 6, 2008:
female, 15
Dumper: unknown,
Place: Lincoln Bryan LGH West
NOTE: attempted
20. October 7, 2008
female, 14
Dumper: grandparents
Place: Omaha, Creighton MC
Special family status: in kinship care
NOTE: Iowa dump
21.- 23. July 16-October 6, 2008
various
Place: Omaha, St. Elizabeth MC
NOTE: 3 attempted
24. October 13, 2008
male, 13,
Dumper: mother with grandmother, and aunt,
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
Special family status: adopted
NOTE: Michigan dump
25.- 26. October 21 2008
female 16 (with baby)
Dumper: self, escorted by aunt
Place Omaha Immanuel MC
NOTE: mother attempted to SH herself and her baby
27. October 21, 2008
male 10 months
Dumper: mother
NOTE: attempted safe haven with DIY mother
28. October 22, 2008
male, 17
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
29. October 25, 2008
male, 12
Dumper: mother
Place: Lincoln Bryan LGH East
NOTE: Georgia dump
30. October 27, 2008
female, 15,
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha Creighton MC
31. October 28, 2008
female, 15
Dumper: father
Place: Omaha Immanuel MC
32. October 28, 2008
male, 17
Dumper: mother and stepfather,
Place: Lincoln Bryan LGH West
33. October 29, 2008
male, 17
Dumper: Legal guardian grandmother
Place: Nebraska MC
NOTE: already state ward
34. November 2, 2008
female, 16
Dumper: Mother
Place: Papillion, Midland Hospital
NOTE: Arizona dump; girl previously lived in Papillion area and she and her mother returned from living in Arizona a few days ago
35. November 2 , 2008
male, 16
Dumper: father
Place: Omaha Children’s Hospital
female, 15
Dumper: legal guardian
Place:
Unknown, 18
Dumper: unk
Place:
NOTE: Attempted
38. November 6, 2008
Male, 8
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha, Bergan Mercy Hospital
NOTE: Indiana dump
39. November 7, 2008
Female, 11
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha, Bergan Mercy Hospital
40. NOVEMBER 9, 2008
Male, 17
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha, Creighton MC
41. NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Female, 18
Dumper: mother
Place: LincolnLGH West
NOTE: attempted
42. November 13, 2008
Male, 11
Dumper: father
Place: Lincoln, Boys Town Research Hospital
NOTE: Florida dump
43, November 13, 2008
Male, 14
Dumper: mother
Place: Omaha, Methodist Hospital
NOTE: sister, 17 escaped before dump was complete (below)
44. November 13, 2008
Female, 17
Dumper: Mother
Place: Omaha, Methodist Hospital
NOTE: attempted (brother, 14–above–was successfully dumped)
45. November 14, 2008
Male, 5
Dumper: Mother
Place: Omaha, Immanuel MC
46. November 18, 2008
Female, 15
Dumper: her guardian, a relative
Place: St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island
We will continue to fight for these kids as best we can, lest they be forgotten and burried under the bureaucracy. Many, particularly the older kids and self “havens” are already in many ways forgotten as they never even made it into the official history.
Unfortunately, rather than being able to end our list here, we may need to return to this to add newly uncovered details as they emerge.
And sadder still, we now need to start a second list of Nebraska’s next dumped generation, those dumped under dump law 2.0.
Unlike this list of older kids, the next will (at least if all goes as the state’s plan) be made up of those 30 days and younger.
None of this ends here, this sadly, is only the beginning.
