West Jordan, Ut. (KSL) — An 8-year-old boy was recently abandoned at a Utah hospital holding a note from his mother saying she did not want him, according to police.
The note said: “This kid is rude and ungovernable! I do not want him in my house at all!”
The boy’s mother, Kathy Sherrer, 36, of West Jordan, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with child abandonment, a third-degree felony, and child abuse, a class A misdemeanor.
However, Sherrer said Wednesday that she believed she was simply taking advantage of Utah’s so-called Safe Haven law.
“I thought that it was OK that we could drop them off and it was a Safe Haven place,” she said. “I wasn’t sure about the Safe Haven laws or what it meant. … I really did not know any other way to go about it.”
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