[orionblamblam]

> Who is dumber, the cops or the reporter?

Huh? The teen almost-parents agreed to the unusual abortion method. The teen-almost-mom's parents were, somehow, unaware of her pregnancy. As far as I know, it's legal to pound on someone, so long as they agree with it... otherwise every boxign match would end with a raid.

[hopespringseternal]

Smith said the male youth --

with the consent of the mother

-- hit the pregnant teen in the abdomen with a decorative-type wooden baseball bat every other day for three weeks.

Might want to check into reading glasses, mkay?