When Nebraska state legislators tried to write a "safe haven" law this summer, they left a giant loophole that has allowed dozens of children and teenagers to be abandoned legally by their parents. The lawmakers are now trying to fix their error, revising the statute to apply only to the abandonment of newborns, which was the original intent.

But here again the state of Nebraska screwed up.

On Oct. 29, Gov. Dave Heineman announced publicly that legislators would be rewriting the law, triggering a rash of new abandonments of older children by parents hoping to beat the deadline.

The revised law could be passed as early as today. So Nebraska readers, you better act fast.