Opinion Excerpt

In Re: B.Cd. & B.Cb., No. 2293, September Term 2024. Opinion by Woodward, J. CINA STATUTE – NEGLECT FINDING – ABANDONMENT OF NEWBORN UNDER SAFE HAVEN ACT CONSTITUTES NEGLECT SAFE HAVEN ACT – STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – LANGUAGE OF ACT GRANTING IMMUNITY FROM “CIVIL LIABILITY” – ACT’S IMMUNITY DOES NOT PRECLUDE FINDING OF “NEGLECT” UNDER CINA STATUTE Mother left her four-day-old twin boys (“Twins”) at a hospital with the express direction that they be placed out of her care under the Safe Haven A