Baby Depository

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]Japanese Hospital To Provide Abandoned Baby Deposit Box[/SIZE]

Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - A hospital in the Japanese city of Kumamoto has announced a new plan to alleviate the problem of abandoned babies left by troubled mothers. According to local Japanese media reports on Thursday, the hospital plans to create a box depository on the outside of the building where mothers can drop off their unwanted child.

The new installation is being called a "stork's cradle." The box contains a small hinged door that opens to reveal an incubator where the baby can be safely placed.

An alarm within the hospital will tell nurses that a new deposit has been made.

The baby 'drop-off' is to be staffed by a team of nurses 24-hours a day.

"We want to save both mothers and children by offering the baby slot," a hospital spokesperson was quoted to say in Asahi Shimbun.

Some critics fear the new program will promote an increase in baby abandonment.

"There must be people who doubt the system, but we can't pretend not to see abandoned children nor can we just let them die. Children have done nothing wrong," the spokesperson, Taiji Hasuda added.

The baby depository is set to be in place by the end of the year.

And Gboothe, before you ask, you're too old and big to fit in the "stork's cradle", no matter how cute those nurses are!

[dimwit]

What I could actually use would be an abandoned drunk box.

[sublight]

Why the shock? The US has had 'Safe Haven' laws for years. In pretty much every state, mothers can leave their babies at hospitals or fire stations within the first 72 hours without fear of prosecution. The theory is basically that the kids are better off being adopted in those cases, so why make the mother afraid to give the child up, or worse, abandon the child somewhere that it won't be found by someone who can take care of it?

[yashka]

i'm not that shocked about it, actualy similar baby-box has been existed for ten years in switzerland

[Socratesabroad]

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"]And Gboothe, before you ask, you're too old and big to fit in the "stork's cradle", no matter how cute those nurses are!

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Well, in that case, could I recommend it to all my girl friends? I ain't that old yet!

[Captain Japan]

'Baby box' given green light
Asahi

The health ministry on Thursday approved a Kumamoto hospital's "baby box" program that allows parents to anonymously place their unwanted infants into an incubator through an opening in the hospital wall.

According to officials of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Jikei Hospital's proposal does not violate any law.

The ministry placed much emphasis on the fact that the hospital's main intention was the safety of unwanted babies, the officials said. They added that the hospital would be required to shoulder responsibility for the safety and welfare of any babies left in the incubator.

Hospital officials applied to the Kumamoto city government for a building permit to install the "box" in December last year.

The city government then consulted the health ministry and the Justice Ministry on the legality of the program.

[GuyJean]

'Baby box' given green light
Asahi

:D That's hilarious.. Does it work with animals? Have too many goats in my pen..

GJ

[james]

needing something like this in about 8-10 years. that should give them enough time to develop the "surly teenager" drop-box.

[Greji]

:D That's hilarious.. Does it work with animals? Have too many goats in my pen..

GJ

Too many you say? You wouldn"t want someone to take some of the better looking ones of your hands, would you?

[Mulboyne]

Open for business

[Mulboyne]

IHT: Boy found in Japan's only anonymous drop box for unwanted infants

A boy believed to be about 3-4 years old has been found in Japan's only anonymous drop box for unwanted infants on its first day in use last week, media reports said Tuesday. The baby drop-off, called "Crane's Cradle," was opened by the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in the southern city of Kumamoto Thursday to discourage abortions and the abandonment of infants in unsafe public places.The hospital has notified local authorities about the boy, who appears to be in good health, Kyodo News agency reported, citing unnamed officials. The boy said that his father took him to the hospital, it said. Public broadcaster NHK carried a similar report. Officials at the hospital were not immediately available for comment.

[Captain Japan]

[Taro Toporific]

2nd infant boy left in 'baby hatch'
KUMAMOTO, Japan, June 16 KYODO
An infant boy aged about two months old has been left at the controversial ''baby hatch'' for unwanted newborns set up by a hospital in Kumamoto City, the second child to be placed there since it was opened in early May, sources familiar with the situation said Saturday.
Jikei Hospital admitted the boy, who is in good health, on Tuesday night. A letter believed to have been written by his parents was attached to him...

[Taro Toporific]

File this under It's-Too-Damn-Hot-To-Be-Breastfeeding....

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Two more infants left in Kumamoto hospital baby hatch
japan today - Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 11:11 EDT
KUMAMOTO --The baby hatch for unwanted newborns set up at a Kumamoto Christian hospital received two baby boys this month, bringing the number of children left at the facility to six, informed sources said Tuesday. The babies were left at Jikei Hospital on Aug 8 and Aug. 16....

[Taro Toporific]

NEW SAITAMA BABY HATCH!
[INDENT]
Bodies of 4 babies found in Saitama apartment
Japan Today - Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 19:57 EDT
SAITAMA ---The bodies of four babies were found Saturday in the closet of an apartment in Fujimi, Saitama Prefecture, police said. A 53-year-old woman who lived in the apartment died Wednesday and her 44-year-old sister found the bodies at around 10:30 a.m. while cleaning the apartment...more...[/INDENT]

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]16 babies left at Japanese 'storks' cradle' in year[/SIZE]

Sixteen babies were dropped off and more than 1,000 people have called for advice in the year since a Japanese hospital opened a controversial "baby hatch," officials and a report said Friday.

A Roman Catholic hospital set up the hatch a year ago, despite criticism by conservative politicians, in the hope of preventing abortions and abuse against unwanted children.

The Jikei Hospital in the southern city of Kumamoto declined to say how many babies have been left in the year. Jiji Press news agency said 16 babies have been dropped off, although one was later taken back by his or her parents.

A hospital official said it has also received 501 consultations in the past 12 months.

"The number is at least over 1,000 if you include calls to hotlines set up by the city and prefectural governments," she told AFP by telephone.

Jikei Hospital director Taiji Hasuda said in a statement: "Honestly speaking, I was surprised to see there were this many troubled mothers."

. . . The idea came under fire from politicians including then prime minister Shinzo Abe, who said it would encourage irresponsibility, but the government found no legal way to stop it.

Abortion is widely accepted in Japan, where adoption outside the extended family is rare. The country is struggling to reverse a decline in population as more young people decide to delay starting families . . . more

Instead of whinging, the J-Government should be grateful for all these perfectly good, future taxpayers, who might otherwise have ended up in the bin.

[Mike Oxlong]

I wonder if Japan will be expanding into the unwanted teen market too...

Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3421219

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Man 'misused baby hatch to grab inheritance'

A 49-year-old man has been charged with pocketing about 60 million yen in insurance money paid to his orphaned nephew, for whom he had been named a legal guardian prior to leaving the infant at a "baby hatch" facility in Kumamoto in 2007. The man is suspected of having embezzled the money from the boy, whose mother had died in a traffic accident. The Saitama prefectural police have sent papers on the case to prosecutors, investigative sources said. The man, who is currently living in the Kanto region, is believed to have abused the baby hatch to illegally obtain financial gains, according to observers.

Jikei Hospital set up the baby hatch in May 2007, allowing parents to anonymously leave their babies if they feel they cannot care for them because of poverty or other reasons.

The man was a guardian for the infant prior to leaving the boy at the hatch, at which point the man collected insurance benefits and other money left for the boy by his mother and spent the money gambling while drifting across the nation, the man reportedly told the police. When he left the boy at the hatch, the man included a note under an assumed name, apparently in an effort to conceal his identity as the guardian, it was learned Tuesday.

According to investigators, after the mother's death, the boy was left alone, and a court appointed the man--the woman's older brother--as the boy's guardian, ordering him to look after the boy's inheritance. However, in spring 2007, the man withdrew the mother's life and accident insurance payments that had been deposited into several bank accounts opened in the boy's name. He then left the boy at the Kumamoto hatch and went missing. Unable to contact the man, the court dismissed him as guardian of the boy. A lawyer who took over the guardianship then consulted with the Saitama prefectural police as to the man's whereabouts.

In early May, the boy's uncle turned himself in at a police station in Aichi Prefecture, lugging a large amount of baggage. The Saitama police then questioned the man, who reportedly said: "I found out about the baby hatch and left the boy there. Since then, I wandered around and gambled the insurance money on motorboat races and other things hoping to earn more money. "I started feeling guilty about what I'd done after seeing people [in the Tohoku region] suffering from the Great East Japan Earthquake," he reportedly told the police.

The Saitama prefectural police made an inquiry into the man's story by asking Jikei Hospital about the circumstances under which the boy was brought to the hatch. They also did DNA tests on the man and the boy to confirm that they were related. The police then sent a letter to the district public prosecutors office on Friday requesting "an appropriate" criminal punishment for the uncle. The police, meanwhile, decided not to pursue the case on suspicion of negligence by a guardian, given that the boy's health condition was better at the hatch and that he had been left in a safer place. The uncle of the boy told The Yomiuri Shimbun on Monday, "Leaving the boy at the hatch isn't illegal, because the facility is approved by the health ministry."

Since the opening of the baby hatch facility in 2007, the Kumamoto municipal government has held a special meeting once every three months inviting lawyers and doctors to discuss the hatch. "We need to discuss whether the latest incident occurred simply because there was such a service as the baby hatch," said an official of the facility. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry had taken a stance that opening up a baby hatch to accept abandoned newborns "cannot be considered illegal."

"The latest incident is a rare example [of misusing the hatch]. I don't think this case should be connected to the debate over whether such a facility should exist," said Toshiyuki Takahashi, of the ministry's Family Welfare Division. At the same time, the ministry is calling into question the anonymity permitted to parents who leave their babies at the hatch, insisting parents take more responsibility in the rearing of their child. "We want parents to thoroughly consult with child consultation centers [before using the facility]," he said.

[Taro Toporific]

Some people using 'baby hatch' in lieu of baby sitters: Kumamoto panel
March 29, 2012 | Japan Times / Kyodo
KUMAMOTO --A Kumamoto hospital "baby hatch" where people can leave unwanted newborns has sometimes been used inappropriately, with one person leaving a child there in order to study abroad, a municipal panel of experts said Thursday.
Another parent left a child in the baby hatch at Jikei Hospital after finding it impossible to find a baby sitter during work hours...more...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Some people using 'baby hatch' in lieu of baby sitters: Kumamoto panel
March 29, 2012 | Japan Times / Kyodo
KUMAMOTO --A Kumamoto hospital "baby hatch" where people can leave unwanted newborns has sometimes been used inappropriately, with one person leaving a child there in order to study abroad, a municipal panel of experts said Thursday.
Another parent left a child in the baby hatch at Jikei Hospital after finding it impossible to find a baby sitter during work hours...more...

It's probably better those people did leave their babies with someone else as they obviously aren't fit to be parents. Too bad they didn't realize that before fucking bareback without the pill or at least when abortion was still an option. Fucking scumbags.

[gaijinpunch]

Japanese youth really need to embrace pulling out.

[GomiGirl]

It's probably better those people did leave their babies with someone else as they obviously aren't fit to be parents.

Definitely these people are unfit and giving the babies up was the best thing they could have done.

But what gets me is that it supposed to be anonymous but they identified the people who dropped off the bubs and then went and interviewed them as to why they did it. Surely this is going to discourage people who can't cope to not use the service at all and their babies are going to be disposed of in an anonymous manner.

Pity that adoption is not used here much. There would probably be a heap of childless couples that would welcome a child into their homes.

[Samurai_Jerk]

But what gets me is that it supposed to be anonymous but they identified the people who dropped off the bubs and then went and interviewed them as to why they did it.

Maybe the idiots went back later to pick up the kids they dropped off. They probably think it's like a pet hotel.

[Taro Toporific]

But what gets me is that it supposed to be anonymous but they identified the people who dropped off the bubs and then went and interviewed them as to why they did it.

Dead newborn left in Kumamoto 'baby hatch'; mom arrested
The Japan Times ‏2014 Oct 04
...The infant, about 53 cm long and weighing 3.2 kg, was spotted at around 8:30 p.m. Friday by a Jikei Hospital employee, who alerted the police. Leaving a baby in the incubator triggers a buzzer to notify hospital staff.
The hatch -- dubbed "the cradle of the storkvulture" ...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Baby hatches in China close as too many infants abandoned
WantChinaTimes.com | 2015-03-29
Several Chinese "baby safety islands" for unwanted children in Guangzhou, Jinan and Xiamen have been closed or have suspended operations temporarily because local welfare centers could not cope with the number of arrivals...
...Since Shijiazhuang in Hebei province set up the nation's first baby hatch in June 2011, as of June 2014 there were a total of 32 such test-run safety islands in 16 provinces or cities, and together they had received 1,400 abandoned infants.
Statistics showed that the baby hatches in Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shijiazhuang had received 100-200 abandoned infants respectively within months of their opening, bringing a heavy workload to the centers and resulting in the closure or suspended operations.
More...

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[Russell]

Baby hatches in China close as too many infants abandoned
WantChinaTimes.com | 2015-03-29
Several Chinese "baby safety islands" for unwanted children in Guangzhou, Jinan and Xiamen have been closed or have suspended operations temporarily because local welfare centers could not cope with the number of arrivals...
...Since Shijiazhuang in Hebei province set up the nation's first baby hatch in June 2011, as of June 2014 there were a total of 32 such test-run safety islands in 16 provinces or cities, and together they had received 1,400 abandoned infants.
Statistics showed that the baby hatches in Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shijiazhuang had received 100-200 abandoned infants respectively within months of their opening, bringing a heavy workload to the centers and resulting in the closure or suspended operations.
More...

Baby-hatch-China.jpg

So, what will happen next with those poor babies?

Will they be sold off for their organs?

[yanpa]

Baby hatches? In Japan? Where can I find a list?