DENISE D'ASCENZO, co-anchor:

A safe haven, two more babies were brought to hospital emergency rooms in March under the state's Safe Haven law. And under this law, parents are given a safe alternative to abandoning babies. Channel 3 EYEWITNESS NEWS reporter Dan Kain has more.

Dan.

DAN KAIN reporting:

Well, an event was held today at St. Francis Hospital to draw attention to the success of that law to date and the role it has played in the lives of people it has touched.

Ms. HOLLY DESIMONE (Hanna's Mom): It is because of the Safe Haven law that I am here today as a mother with a child to forever love.

KAIN: There were mothers, fathers, and children and a range of people involved in one aspect or another of the Safe Haven process today, all grateful for its success to date.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER DADLEZ (CEO, St. Francis Hospital): St. Francis experienced the benefit of this law when an infant was brought to our emergency room on Christmas Day 2007. That child has since been adopted.

KAIN: The adoptive parents of the baby brought to St. Francis were at today's even along with Hanna to stress the importance of the law and what it has meant in their lives.

Ms. DESIMONE: She was dubbed the Christmas miracle baby. We actually saw the media story and we thought, 'Oh, what a wonderful story that is' and then to only get the phone call a few weeks later and to have her now as our child, and we've been told she actually even looks like us. So we know that was God's hand guiding her to--the mother to this hospital.

KAIN: Under the law, a parent can bring an infant to any hospital emergency department without fear of criminal prosecution. Since the law took effect in 2000, 11 infants have been brought to hospitals and are now adopted or in the process of adoption. And birth mothers as well were very much on everyone's minds today.

Unidentified Woman (Adoptive Parent): We've never questioned the courage that it took for her to do what she did. Colton will grow up knowing that she loved him enough to take him to a safe place where he could find us.

KAIN: And despite the Safe Haven law, four babies have been abandoned since it went into effect, two of those in 2001, another in 2004, and one in August of 2006. All of those children have survived.

Dan Kain, Channel 3 EYEWITNESS NEWS.