Nebraska Safe-Haven Law

To save you from reading the article the short version is that Nebraska wrote a safe-haven law for dropping off your child at a hospital without fear of prosecution.  This is one of those things to protect unwanted pregnancy infants from being left in a dumpster.  But the people worded it so poorly that they didn't define an age and said "child" rather than "infant" so a guy left his 9 kids, ranging from 1 to 17 at an emergency room and he has now given up guardianship...

The law is very simply worded "No person shall be prosecuted for any crime based solely upon the act of leaving a child in the custody of an employee on duty at a hospital licensed by the State of Nebraska. The hospital shall promptly contact appropriate authorities to take custody of the child."

I guess that does away with my idea of kidnapping children and dropping them off at the hospital to get off scott-free... Of course since this was an anti-abuse law it also doesn't protect abusive parents who drop off their kids, because they can still be charged with abuse.  And what exactly does happen when your baby sitter or a teacher decides to take a kid to the hospital and drop them off?  Even the fact that you are "leaving a child in the custody of an employee on duty..." leaves it pretty open.  Your infant is at the hospital, you go home for the evening, it's in their custody if they'd like to call the authorities and have it taken away, but I guess that's not too likely, is it?  Nice try Nebraska.  Keep up the good work!