NE man that abused safe haven law by dumping his 9 kids at a hospital is having another kid

[babylonsister]

Nebraska man that abused safe haven law by dumping his 9 kids at a hospital is having another kid
June 30, 8:26 AM


Gary Staton, the Nebraska father who famously abandoned nine of his children in a hospital in September 2007 by invoking the safe haven law, is about to become a dad again. The 37-year-old father-to-be has gotten his girlfriend pregnant, and will now have eleven children. The latest baby, however, will be the only one has parental rights to, since he officially gave up his other children.

Staton's situation and actions in 2007 brought a lot of attention to Nebraska's safe haven law. At the time, it stated that any child could be brought to a hospital and left there without the parent facing criminal prosection. There was no age limit. After Staton brought nine of his children to Creighton University Medical Center, the law was changed to stipulate that only newborns could be left. Staton's children were between the ages of 8 months and 16-year-old when he left them.

Initially, his story brought him a lot of public sympathy. His wife had died suddenly of an aneurysm earlier in the year, he had lost his job, and he said that he had also lost the will to parent without his wife. He also said he asked for no financial assistance at that time, and that he found it hard to make ends meet with his $10.75 an hour job.

It didn't take long for some investigating to reveal that during the lifetime of the Staton children, the family had received nearly $1 million in government aid such as food stamps and Medicaid. It was also learned that Staton had lied to his children when taking them to the hospital where he abandoned them, telling them he was getting them grief counseling.

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[supernova]

1. Why didn't the court

order him to get a vasectomy?!?

Jeez what a douchebag.

[lindisfarne]

8. We don't prevent the mentally incompetent from having kids. n/t

[pinto]

2. That's one sick dude.

[GodlessBiker]

He's gonna keep doin it tell he gets a good one.

[Blue_Tires]

13. that kid will be found at the fire department 24 hours after being born

but let's be honest; that mom-to-be needs to be the FIRST person to get her ass kicked...if she wanted kids so bad the no-brainer decision would be to adopt back some of the ones he abandoned...

[TheWraith]

3. Normally I don't advocate violence to solve a problem...

But this man really needs an ass kicking.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I'll go get Skittles!

[kestrel91316]

9. Wrong side. Turn him around, and you've got the idea.

[Laelth]

4. I didn't think men could have children.

Who knew?

:shrug:

:dem:

-Laelth

[fizzgig]

5. why would any woman want to have a child with that man?

seems like something that would fall at the bottom of a list of things that sound like a good idea.

how heartbreaking this must be for the other children.

[lindisfarne]

7. Just as stupid as he is? Obviously, the guy isn't playing with a full deck of cards.n/t

[TheWraith]

17. Yup. Exactly.

Stupid and/or evil people tend to attract and breed with each other.

[Vidar]

16. No Death Row conjugal visits available.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. someone needs to break his baby maker

[Blue_Tires]

11. what a lowlife piece of shit

whatever happened to the 9 he left behind, anyways??

and am i the only one shocked that he even FOUND a girlfriend? much less one that wanted to have #11? she may as well get a child support attorney on speed-dial right fucking now...she may also want to hide the sperm donor's credit cards and passport just to be sure...

[Gwendolyn]

12. I remember the huge outpouring of support at the time.

And all the tsk tsking about the system. I remember as well, the last story about this poor family noted that after daddy dumped off the kids, he was last seen by the neighbors packing a suitcase into the trunk of a car and leaving with the new girlfriend. How could this new development be any surprise? Out with the old, in with the new!

[rvablue]

14. I hope whomever is taking care of the kids he gave up make sure they never read this!!!! n/t

[seabeyond]

15. ah, nebraska. see we thought it kansas and our cross country drive took us by kansas about

the time our kids started mouthin in the back seat. let them know they werent too far from the kansas border, lol

[Pharlo]

18. Ok, am I the only one having problems with the math in that article?

There were 9 children he gave up, one on the way, yet he has 11 children. Was the other one from before the nine he gave up, or between the nine and the new one.

From later in the article, the oldest boy is legally an adult, the two oldest are living with a 75 year old woman in Omaha, and the mother's aunt wants to adopt the 'remaining seven'.

Is the oldest, who is an adult, one of the two boys living with the 75 year old lady, or has the 11 - 9 - 1 = 1 reappeared?

[LisaL]

19. He had 10. He gave up 9. One was an adult and therefore

he couldn't give that one up. Now he is having another one. That makes 11.

[Pharlo]

20. Thank you.