[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.

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The 16-year-old boy may also avoid charges because his actions appear to have been consensual, the station reported.

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The parents of the teens apparently did not know of the pregnancy until the miscarriage occurred, police said.

Who is dumber, the cops or the reporter?

[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.

[ashtanga]

In a cosmos in which sexual freedom replaces self-restraint....

[agrace]

Who is dumber, the cops or the reporter?

Actually the prosecutor, because he said

"If it's a nonviable fetus, then we're talking about the destruction of an embryo and … in that case you can't charge the woman with it," said Smith.

Uh dude, it stopped being an embryo a long time ago.

Unless of course the reporter misquoted him, in which case that makes the reporter the dumbest, hands down.