Lincoln nearly had it's third safe haven case. According to Police Chief Tom Casady a 34 year old mother showed up at Bryan LGH West 11:15 Monday morning to drop off her 15 year old daughter under the state's safe haven law. The woman told officials the daughter was a run-away and she couldn't handle her behavior. The woman also told police she was worried for her young son when the girl was home and had begun filing paperwork to make the girl a ward of the state, but it was taking too long.

A Lincoln officer talked with the woman and doctors at the hospital and worked out an arrangement where the girl was admitted into the hospital's child psychiatric service instead of abandoned under safe haven.

Health and Human Services has been called in to help on the case.

Casady says this is the second time LPD has helped a family considering using the safe haven law.