CLINTON - Law Enforcement is investigating after a newborn was apparently abandoned outside Clinton Hospital earlier this week.
On Monday, April 19, between 2 and 3 a.m., a newborn baby was left unattended in the parking lot at Clinton Hospital and found by staff, according to police reports.
Clinton police Lt. Brian Coyne said, from the most recent reports, the baby is doing fine, health-wise. Baby Safe Haven, Department of Children and Families and the Worcester County District Attorney s Office were all notified. The baby could have been legally left at the hospital under the state s Safe Haven Act, but the person who left the baby did not make any notification to anyone at the hospital or leave the baby with an appropriate person, which the law states, Coyne said. Luckily, someone from inside the hospital found the baby when they did and the baby was brought inside to be cared for.
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
March 10, 2021
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
From left in photo taken last week at the Engine 16 stationhouse: Baby Safe Haven New England spokesperson Mackenzie Lee Clement, Boston firefighter Sheila Leahy, Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey, and Chantelle Stallworth, Ladder 29 Boston firefighter. Katie Trojano photo
A non-profit that seeks to promote child safety joined with Boston Fire Department officials last week to promote the ‘Baby Safe Haven’ law during an event at the Engine 16 station house on Gallivan Boulevard.
Boston Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey joined volunteers from Baby Safe Haven New England as they affixed signage near the station’s front door. Two dozen such signs were installed around the city last week including 20 at BFD locations and one at the Carney Hospital in Dorchester.
THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Dec. 28, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2021.
OVERRIDE BAKER’S VETO OF BILL TO INCREASE ABORTION ACCESS (H 5179)
House 107-50, Senate 32-8, overrode Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of a bill that would allow abortions after 24 weeks in the case of lethal fetal anomalies and lower the age from 18 to 16 at which a minor can choose to have an abortion without parental or judicial consent.
“I strongly support a woman’s right to access reproductive health care, and many provisions of this bill,” said Baker in a letter that accompanied his veto. “I support, for example, the provision that would enable a woman to access an abortion where the child would not survive after birth, and the modifications to the judicial bypass process that make it more accessible to minors who are unable to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian. I also support the changes that elimina