Safe Haven families react to another abandoned baby: 'I want to help other women in crisis'
When Tera Naset heard about a newborn baby abandoned this month in a Chicago alley - named Patrick Casey Doe after the first responders who helped save his life - it hit her hard.
If things had gone differently, that could've been her son, Frankie.
Almost exactly one year before police say baby Doe was left in an alley by his teenage parents, a woman walked into a Chicago hospital and handed an employee Frankie, wrapped in a blanket, explaining she had just given birth that morning, Naset said. She then declined medical care and left.
The woman, who remains anonymous, could do so legally because of the state's Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act, commonly referred to as the Safe Haven Law. Her decision that day set into motion a path that
