North Dakota’s Baby Safe Haven Law passed in 2000 because of two tragic cases that had happened in 1998 and 1999:
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1998 North Dakota State University (NDSU) Case
An NDSU student gave birth in a sorority house bathroom, wrapped the infant in a towel and put it under her bed. The infant was dead when the woman returned from class. The infant was then found in a campus trash bin.
1999 Baby Moses Case
An infant was found dead in a suitcase on a rural road on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
