After weeks of effort, searchers find body of newborn boy in Nebraska land

[Judi Lynn]

After weeks of effort, searchers find body of newborn boy in Nebraska landfill

DORIS HAUGEN, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, April 6, 2004


(04-06) 14:13 PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) --

After more than three weeks of searching, volunteers sorting through garbage at a Nebraska landfill found the body of a newborn baby, just days before authorities had planned to call off the search.

"Everybody's prayers were answered, I guess," said Leonard Gill, owner of L.P. Gill Landfill, where crews have been working since March 11. "It's a big relief."

About 20 searchers were at the site when someone found the infant's remains Monday, Gill said.

The search by nearly 300 police officers, firefighters and other volunteers was launched after Union County, S.D., Sheriff Dan Limoges said he was told March 9 that an infant had been born and placed in the garbage.
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[DenverDem]

1. Even if the poor child was stillborn this should be first degree capital

murder.

Life is percieved as worth so little in our self consumed culture.

I pray for this defenseless little soul.

(I'm still pro choice, just make a timely choice, for God's sake!)

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. If the baby was stillborn, it CANNOT be murder.

Unless the baby was deliberately killed in utero and a fair trial has been conducted. I'm glad you're not a judge.

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[demdave]

3. S. D.'s Baby Moses law allows desperate mothers to drop off a newborn

The 2001 law allows a parent to bring a baby younger than 60 days to a hospital, clinic, law enforcement officer, licensed child placement agency, emergency medical technician or firefighter with no questions asked.

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No other adoption agencies have taken in a baby under the Baby Moses law. Neither has either Sioux Valley or Avera McKennan hospital or the Sioux Falls Police Department.



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Under the law, the person who leaves the baby has 14 days to return. If no birth father seeks out the child, a hearing is held after 60 days to terminate parental rights.



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Sioux Falls' four licensed adoption agencies say there always are families waiting to adopt infants.

"There's never been a problem with finding an adoptive parent for an infant," Dede Mogck with Lutheran Social Services said.