Today M sent me this link to an article about a couple welcoming their 16th child into this world.
Sadly, last night I saw no less than 4 media vans near the 29th street cafe near my house. Upon asking one of the mediapersons, I was told that the cops had found the girl (a USC student) who had dumped her new-born baby in a dumpster. The baby was found dead some days ago.
Read the article about it here.
The saddest part is that the girl chose to abandon the baby, although by law one can abandon a baby at any fire station [there is one very close to where the baby was found], and no questions are asked. I wonder what made her choose to kill a newborn.
One can assume that she thought that the baby will survive, but lets be reasonable... how long can a baby that small [the umbilical chord was still attached] survive in a cardboard box in a dumpster?
What do you say, dear readers? I am sure you hold a variety of views on this.
-A
Thursday, October 13, 2005
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Sad ..Pretty sad..
ReplyDeleteThough, I am not sure if every1 in this country is educated about the fact that you can abandon the baby at a fire station, and they would take it, no questions asked.
2 things make me sad:
1.lack of information, which is pretty evident
2. such ruthlessness towards your own child is abs unwarranted. I mean, there could be so many obvious places (as opposed to a garbage dump..eg outside a house, ), where she could have left the baby, so that someone could find her and at least get her to the cops/fire dept (also given the fact tht the cops and fire dept are so efficient, they would have done something abt it). I wonder if the garbage dump thing was out of pure anger or insanity...
In either case, i would not take any excuse in this case....
Though, one question strikes me, this is prob a sinful act, but then...is abortion of an unwanted child a sinful act too?...
I am not sure of the answer...but then...things to ponder abt
Though a very sad incident and a wrong act, but why should just the mother suffer?? Why should she be in jail for 10 years... Where is the father who was equally responsible for the child?? Shouldnt even he be punished for no concern for the new born...
ReplyDeleteI am sure he would have been involved atleast in the decision of not aborting the child.... and whatever circumstances developed later might have forced the mother to commit such a crime...
But i feel the father is equally responisble for this shameful act...