She knew enough that you cut the cord.
She didn't know enough to knot it or clamp it. But I don't consider that her fault.
I honestly wonder just how many women would know that it was necessary these days. Having children at home and all that is entailed in the process is so far removed from our culture today that I really think that it was just a naive mistake on her part.
Sure, arrest her for drug paraphernalia but not murder for what is most likely an innocent mistake.
Nor would I label her as stupid of dumb for not knowing how to do something she was never taught.
I'm going to cut her some slack for the cutting of the cord without knotting or clamping it as a mistake.
If the baby was thrown on the floor while smoking a pipe, guilty. During a birth, you should clamp the cord in the middle in two places and cut between the clamps. If she would have just held the baby on her chest for a few minutes, the placenta would have come out and the cord serves no purpose after that anyway. To be charged with murder, it most likely will be something more than just stupidity.
For whatever reason, reporters love to post stories with almost no information. IMO, the reporter wouldn't know what to do in an emergency birthing. The level of education of today's Millennials is frightening.
There is one other thing you and I did not take into account and you and lots of other FReerper women should be able to back this up.
All of you who have had a baby know what an ordeal that is. Emotional, stressful, draining, exhausting, tiring, and this was with the help of others around you.
Now just imagine you had to do this by yourself and without an epidural? Imagine what state of mind this woman as in? Someone pointed out to me she was smart enough to cut the cord but when the baby started dying she had no idea as to why or what to do next. Or maybe, she had no idea that the baby was even dying. How were you after your childbirths, more so your first? Okay imagine this woman and with no pain killers.
As for the drugs found in the home? Was she the only one living there? She was the only one home at the time but nothing in this story that ones were found in her system or the baby’s. Unless they tell me they found that or a needle in her arm when they found her I don’t know the stuff belonged to. Anymore when they find drugs in a house they arrest everyone until they figure out who’s drugs it was, unless they had some idea before and who was dealing in that house.