I’m back home. One of the Bad Cats dumped a cup of Earl Grey into my laptop as I was writing this morning. Hopefully it will dry up. In the meantime, I”m working on slower computer which is hampering my efforts to get my letters out to Nebraska leggies today. Sabina offers an update on yesterday’s hearing here Apparently our baby dump friends now think that women suffering post-partum depression should be encouraged too dump their kids to avoid killing them. It goes on and on, while, as you will see from Sabina’s report, the social welfare system of the state staggers along into oblivion. Sabina should be awarded Bastard Maschocist of 2008 for listening to this without throwing a haame through her computer.

I am out of town and have been unable to do much original blogging right now. I’ve been working, though on a press release (below) and contacting leggies and media. Sabina is doing a bang-up job on monitoring events in Nebraska. She’s very painfully is listening to all of the Nebraska special session hearings–and pain is not a strong enough word to describe what is going on there. Please go over to Children of the Corn to read her updates. Also, just under the wire, another dump occurred yesterday. I wonder how many more there will be before Friday. Sabina has also reported on it.

PRESS RELEASENOVEMBER 18, 2008 BASTARD NATION TO NEBRASKA: REPEAL LB 157!STOP CHILD DUMPING NOW!AND DON’T BRING IT BACK! CONTACT: Marley Greiner, 614-571-2999 or [email protected] Nebraska had it right the first time. It was the last state to pass a “safe haven” law. Nebraska can be the first to repeal this misbegotten law before any more families are harmed or even destroyed. Nebraska can lead the rest of the country in dragging itself out of this moral quagmire. Bastard Nation Testimony, Nebraska Judiciary Committee, November 17, 2009 Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization yesterday called for the permanent repeal of Nebraska’s LB 157, which permits anyone to abandon any child of any age at a licensed hospital in the State of Nebraska. The special session of the Nebraska Unicameral was called this week to revise the age limit on children eligible for abandonment, is looking at two bills, LB 1 and LB 3. Bastard Nation believes that dumping a child of any age is no solution to social isolation, fear, family dysfunction, and mental illness. The problems of parents, whether they are a frightened 15-year old mom of a newborn or a 55-year old grandpa caring for a mentally ill grandson, Continue Reading →

(Consider this a personally posted action alert of sorts. Please forward freely with contact information attached.) Lots of VERY IMPORTANT, and very bad things are happening to Nebraska’s legalized Child Abandonment law right now. See Amendments 10 and 11 below in particular. This is the Nebraska page on LB 1, and its evolving amendments can be found listed down the right hand side. I’ve already written about Amendments 1 and 2 on the Nebraska related blog Marley Greiner and I are co-authoring- Children of the Corn These are new; AM 4– sets the cut off at 1 year AM 5– 30 days AM 6– four months AM 9– sets an expiration date- June 4, 2009 but the latest amendments are exactly what I suspected were coming;AM 10– insert “The person leaving such child may remain anonymous.” (emphasis added) and AM 11– insert “The hospital shall not require the person leaving such child to provide any medical history of the child or the child’s family. The person leaving such child may voluntarily provide medical history of the child or the child’s family.” (emphasis added) These last two amendments will have GRAVE lifelong consequences for Nebraska’s next set of State enabled abandoned Continue Reading →

BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED RE: NEBRASKA SAFE HAVEN LAW REPEAL IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO LB 157. Members of the Nebraska Legislature convened Monday, Nov. 14 for a Unicam special session to address Nebraska’s disastrous safe haven law, LB157. This law allows any person to abandon any child up to the age of 19 to a state- designated safe haven. Since its passage last summer, this law has turned the safe-haven concept on its head. 34 children have been abandoned to state designated safe havens since Sept. 1st. It is urgent that you contact the Unicam legislators at once because bills introduced on the opening day of the Unicam session, Nov. 14th, will be eligible for final passage as early as this Friday, Nov. 21st. Bastard Nation calls for the immediate and PERMANENT repeal of LB 157. Furthermore, it calls for the defeat of LB 1, LB 3 and any other subsequent attempts by the Unicam to impose any baby dump/Baby Moses, safe haven bill on the people of Nebraska. LB 1 and LB 3, two alternatives to LB157, were introduced on Nov. 14th. LB1 would change the safe haven law to apply to infants 72 hours Continue Reading →

So far, Nebraska lawmakers have introduced two bills in response to the Governor’s call to revisit LB 157 and change the age of children eligible for “legal abandonment.” LB 1 limits the age of children who can be abandoned legally by their parents without prosecution to 72 hours. LB 3 creates a 2-tired system of legal abandonment: one for infants of up to one year of age; the other for children between the ages of 1 and 16. The second tier also creates regional and state “intervention teams” to assist families in abandonment crisis enabling them to access services and to avoid abandoning their children. There is no intervention team for infants. Apparently babies don’t mind being tossed away with no fuss or muss. Only Big Kids do. Both of these bills are unacceptable. Repeal is the only solution. For your convenience, we have placed links in the Children of the Corn sidebar to those bills More later.

Here’s a quick update for this afternoon. Things are popping so fast, it’s hard to keep up. I’d like to write about what happened yesterday on Day One of the lame duck special session of the Unicam, but I’ve absolutely got to finish my testimony today. In the meantime: The Tate-Mote case continues to be in the news.Ronnie Tate, (left) father of the 8-year old dropped off in Omaha last week, has announced his intention to seek custody of the boy He is well aware that his 1988 child molestation conviction will hinder his chances of getting custody. Tate maintains he was innocent of the charge. The article and a video of Tate are here. Tate’s case bring up the untouched subject of what are the rights of the non-dumping parent. Yesterday Tate and his ex-wife Stephanie Mote and Mote’s father appeared in Wabash County Juvenile Court for a hearing to determine temporary custody of the boy. Mote’s attorney, not surprisingly, said that “it is extremely unlikely” that any of the boy’s relatives will get custody. Juvenile Court Judge Robert McCallen III has barred the press from the courtroom and ordered all parties in the case to halt interviews with Continue Reading →

(NOTE: I intended to include this story in the second part of my piece from last weekend, still on the burner, on the voices of “safe haven” victims, but this seems like a good place to put it now since there is new information today. As I wrote it, it became longer and longer, included more and more, and the rathole got deeper and darker. Words fail me when I try to write about these cases, but I think it’s important to know them. These kids cannot be forgotten and written out of the history of the Great Dump Experiment, nor can the politicians and do-gooders who engineered this experiment be hidden.) ***** Remember the Indiana case of the 8-year old left at Bergan Mercy Medical Center? To refresh your memory, the boy was dropped-off in Omaha on November 6. The next day, after negotiations with Indiana authorities, the boy was returned to Wabash County and put into protective custody. Officials refused to tell the parents his location. I found that a bit odd–that he was being held in some secret location–but the reasons soon became abundantly clear. The Indiana press picks it up from there with two significant developments: Continue Reading →