DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- A baby girl is in state custody after being dropped off at a hospital under the state's safe haven law.

State officials say the healthy infant was taken to a hospital emergency room on December 18 by a middle-aged woman who said she wasn't the mother.

The woman left without providing any additional information.

It's the ninth time that a baby has been protected under the law since it was passed in 2001.

The law allows unwanted babies 14 days or younger to be left at any medical facility in the state with no questions asked.

It was approved after the body of a newborn girl was found in a snowy field near Chelsea in eastern Iowa.

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