n January 16, 2024. the baby box company filed suit in Federal Court against the Miami-based traditional safe haven advocacy organization A Safe Haven for Newborns/Gloria Silverio Foundation, its founder and director Nick Silverio, the South Trail Fire Rescue District, and Amy Bollen, its public relations director, accursing them of slander, defamation, and “tortuous interference with contract or business.”…We are therefore dedicating a page to lawsuit coverage. It will include documents, news articles, commentary, and other material related to the case
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Baby Boxes in the U.S.
Information about laws, statistics, issues, and locations of baby boxes across the United States. Click on a state for more information.
US Baby Box Map
KEY: Boxes • No Boxes(but law allows them)
Current State Legislation
Current legislation related to safe haven baby boxes in the United States, including bills to authorize installation of the devices.
US Legislation 2024
KEY: Active • Enacted • Dead/In Limbo
Featured Essays and Resources
Why is Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc So Afraid of Adoptees?
Class Bastard—the Adopted—to the minds of the baby box tycoonery poses some kind of existential threat to their evangelical stampede through America to normalize baby-abandonment-by-box-in-the-wall.
Sex Outside of Marriage? You’re a Piece of Chewed Up Gum that Nobody Wants. A Message from Pam Stenzel, Safe Haven Baby Box Hotline Coordinator/Counselor
Her bottom line preached for three decades: if you have sex outside of marriage you will pay for it for the rest of your life, physically mentally, and emotionally…he compared teen girls who had had sex to a nasty piece of chewed-up gum and an old shoe. Who would want them? Twenty years later it’s still her message.
Abortion, Adoption, Safe Havens, and Reproductive Justice
It’s all theater. For baby box pushers, adoptees and “desperate mothers” are nothing more than dehumanized props used to create a utopian abortion-free world.
What Critics Say About Baby Boxes
Baby Boxes do not empower women and certainly not their abandoned children as they grow up. They trivialize pregnancy, commodify babies, and maintain adoption secrets and lies.
Latest News and Information
Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Gets its First Dead Mother
Monica Kelsey, founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc went on TikTok to announce that the anonymous biological mother of one of her boxed babies has died of an overdose.
This mother needed real help.
Not a baby box.
Action Alert: No Baby Boxes in Maryland
Ask Maryland state senators to VOTE NO on SB873 when it comes before them.
Our New Video: Pot Meet Kettle (Baby Box Legislation in Nebraska)
The bill seemed to be speedballing its way to passage until Senator Carol Blood raised her hand in objection. We don’t have a record of what went down, when, or where, except for Mrs Kelsey’s public hissy fit: Senator Blood, clearly, is just plain stupid.
Boxes at Any Cost
A look at the scorched earth litigation strategy of Monica Kelsey and her Safe Haven Baby Box corporation.
Contract Reportedly Demands Officials to be Silent on a Baby Catch Until Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Issues a Press Release
Fire Chief Charles Cox and Mayor Robert Noblin could not release more information due to a contractual obligation to the baby box corporation that everything remain hush-hush until Mrs. Kelsey officially announces the catch.
Angelika’s Corner
Nebraska Baby Box Bill: Adoption Lawyer Says What????
I haven’t traveled much, but here in Corpus Christi, I’ ‘ve never seen a “desperate” pregnant woman or new mother place an ad in the paper or Facebook or standing at the intersection of South Staples and South Padre Island Drive holding a sign PLEASE ADOPT MY BABY. Believe me, it is not that difficult to put your kid into the grabby-hands of the adoption mill. Especially if it’s brand new.
Arkansas: Safe Haven Baby Boxes Contradicts Their Own Facts
Truth is: there is no newborn discard epidemic in Arkansas. Since 2017, according to SHBB’s own statistics. 4 discard cases were reported.
Fun at Safe Have Baby Boxes
Now, I believe that SHBB Inc founder and CEO Monica Kelsey actually cares about these babies. She may love them. It’s not an act. She sometimes refers to them as “my babies.” She fantasizes occasionally that someday one of these (grateful) kids will grow up and take over the baby box company when she retires. Frankly, I don’t see her ever retiring because it’s much more fun and easier than her former job of firefighter/EMT, and there’s lots of free travel thanks to other people’s dimes.
Save Haven Baby Boxes are Amenities?
Here I thought amenities were Scotch in the refrigerator, a fluffy monogrammed bathrobe in the closet, and free toiletries, breakfasts, and gym at the Hyatt. Hershey’s Nuggets on the pillow are also nice. Godiva Truffles, better.
Just When You Think Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc Can’t Get More Absurd–Panhandling for AAA Batteries
.something was missing. Mrs Kelsey forgot to add that AAA batteries are needed to operate the light packs. Always one to turn someone else’s buck into her own, she came back and asked for battery donations. Order them from Amazon, wrap up your extras, and drop them in the mail.
Hup 2..3..4..Hup 2..3..4..Safe Haven Baby Boxes are Marching into Kentucky
Currently, 19 Safe Haven Baby Boxes are operating in Kentucky, but that is about to change BIG TIME! Safe Haven Baby Boxes on the march! WRTB-TV reports, according to Monica Kelsey, Founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, that by the end of the year, that number will reach a crackin’ 34.
Scenes from the Asylum
Would You Box Your Baby with this Person?
Is this professional? Is this normal? Does this exude confidence? Would we donate to this organization? Would we leave our baby with her? Hmmmm. No! No ! No!Nol! and No.!