Baby Box

This is one of the saddest things I have seen in a long time, we walked past it on a side street on the way to a resteraunt after parking the car. Its a Baby box and the idea is that if you no longer want or can care for your baby you can take it to the "box" place it inside, press the occupied button and walk away annonimously.  the occupied button puts on the heating to a set temprature and alrets a local hospital who come down to collect the baby and presumable place it into some sort of care system.

I cannot imagine what the mother must be going through to use a baby box and what "emotional baggage" for want of a much better expression both the mother and baby will carry for the rest of their lives.