Baby box saves another life

A seven months old baby boy was placed in one of the three baby boxes currently operating in the Czech Republic early on Tuesday. Doctors said the boy was in good health and showed no signs of abuse. He will now be placed in an orphanage while the authorities look for a foster family or adoptive parents for him. The three baby boxes have already saved six lives. The first was introduced in Prague in 2006 amidst much controversy. Opponents of the idea argued that baby boxes would encourage mothers to abandon their children more easily than they might otherwise do. Its advocates pointed to the fact that babies died every year after being left somewhere out in the open or killed and thrown on a rubbish dump.