Posted on 06/27/2008 8:34:13 AM PDT by wintertime
A 14-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with murder after she allegedly killed her newborn baby in a school bathroom.
Baytown, Texas, police said the eighth-grade student submerged the 7 pound infant in a Cedar Bayou Junior School toilet and jammed toilet paper down his throat so he wouldn't cry, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Police have been investigating the incident since the baby was found April 2.
The baby also suffered blunt trauma to his head and neck, according to a Harris County autopsy.
Gerald Yoakum, the girl's attorney, claims she wasn't aware that the baby was in the toilet because she was bleeding profusely. The teenager who claims not to have known she was pregnant wore loose clothing to hide her growing belly.
"Please remember that this is a 14-year-old child who has experienced a tragic event," he wrote in a statement.
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She should be tried as an adult - for sure she will grow up to be a dangerous sociopath.
Those people become chronologically old enough to vote Dhimmirat.
Everyone has this innate sense of right and wrong - whether they listen to it or not is a matter of parental training.
Timeouts, Love & Logic, reasoning with a child, not wanting to “break their will”, etc, leads to children with a sense of right and wrong suppressed by their stronger sin nature that enslaves them to their nihilistic tendencies.
I totally agree. Funny thing- when my oldest daughter got pregnant at college, the boy called his family first- his father was adamant that she get an abortion- even though they are Catholics!! That just blew me away! His stepmother is the one that held firmly against abortion as an option and his parents even seperated for a while because of the argument. I have never forgiven the man for his ignorance and don’t speak to him to this day.
I understand the perspective that “one size does not fit all” when it comes to a teenager getting pregnant and raising a child on their own. Personally, I obviously believe in adoption because as a single never married, never had children of my own adult Christian woman, I adopted four siblings out of foster care myself.
I have to stand before God someday and give an account for MY actions — for MY counsel that I give to my children — for how I support and love them when they go astray and make irresponsible decisions.
Up until the age of probably 20, I would do everything in my power to help my daughter choose adoption over keeping the child. If she was under age (17 or less), it is MY decision as her parent, and adoption would be the decision. Over 17, if she would decide to keep the baby, I would make it clear that I will no longer help to pay for college, they cannot live with me, she will have to provide housing and shelter and food and all necessities. She will have to live and act like a fully responsible adult single mother (as I did when i adopted all four siblings). I would love her and the baby unconditionally always, but I would not take care of her, if she believes she is grown up enough to raise the child on her own. I would not necessarily counsel her to marry the boyfriend, either. Marriage cures nothing — it only creates more problems.
Every child is different developmentally, emotionally, maturity, etc. But I am raising my children to know these rules of mine I have stated above. I am raising two sons to respect women, and to be so careful not to ever put a girl in a situation where a life is created out of God’s way and time. If my sons did get a girl pregnant as a teen, I would require very specific things of him (finish high school, work full time, be involved with the child, etc.) I would not support him either under my roof, and would help him find adequate housing (as I would my daughter) where he is paying his own bills and takes full responsibility for the GIRL and not just for the child. My children are being raised with understanding all about choices and consequences.
Like my children say to me all the time, “Momma, enough bad stuff has happened to us with our birthparents. We want to do the right things NOW.” They are all under 14 years old, talking like that. So far — I’m doing pretty well and will stick with what I am doing — with God’s help, and our wonderful homeschooling and church and family communities.
After my first baby was born, I remember thinking that if anyone else had hurt me like that, I would hunt him down and kill him. Of course I was in love with my son from the second he was conceived and didn’t blame him in the least.
If a young, ignorant, frightened mother never had that bonding, I can imagine an enraged response to the pain of birth. She would also have to be deficient in natural maternal instinct, but then again, a newborn baby is sometimes very ugly.
But all that is why we have to teach our children that you should never react by emotion alone - when they are in a crisis, they need to turn on their intellect and go by moral principles.
“Don’t paint with such a broad brush. “
Sorry....I was trying to be absurd and thought it would be obvious. The comment I was responding to was so gratuitous as to be rather funny.
My kids are good kids and went to public school (as well as simultaneously being homeschooled)
Obviously your kids are just fine - which underscores the point I was trying to make (though perhaps too obliquely)
This story will be in my nightmares. Truly a foreboding omen for America.
She was IN school already. Had she taken a crying baby out of the bathroom and out the exit, she would have been seen and stopped, and everyone would have known. That is why she killed the baby. She was trying to conceal the birth, as she tried to conceal her pregnancy.
The America of your youth is dead and buried. The America of today is breeding sociopaths by the millions.
Take great care with how you treat the mother during pregnancy. It has been shown that women who have experienced great stress during pregnancy (WWII women during London "blitz" is the largest study done) have had a much higher risk of hormone related abnormalities in the child (hermaphrodism, sex organ deformities in extreme cases, homosexuality is less extreme cases).
Obviously, anyone who missed the sarcasm in your post must have gone to public schools.
I did a bit of research when these cases came up in April. It’s sadder than sad.
The girls tend to be passive and that’s how they got pregnant: they go along to keep the peace, because they don’t see a way out. And then, they tend to be nearly psychotic in their denial of the pregnancy.
Everyone failed this girl. No one reacted, no one helped her, she was getting support for her denial - is it any wonder that she reacted incoherently?
It’s unbelievable that the nurse didn’t notice, much less lay hands on the girl’s stomach that day, that no parent, teacher or friend noticed her pregnancy and denial.
Now, everyone will blame her, expect her to be held accountable as an adult, as though pregnancy and labor instills some special wisdom on 14 year olds.
(Thank you, GB.)
even though they are Catholics!!
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The father is a CINO!
gb? george bush? How is this his fault?
You guys don't seriously expect the lawyer to respect the pain and suffering of the child victim do you? Please refer back to the words of James Fagan who has made it very clear what kind of humans these trial attorneys are.
You guys don't seriously expect the lawyer to respect the pain and suffering of the child victim do you? Please refer back to the words of James Fagan who has made it very clear what kind of humans these trial attorneys are.
The only tragic event was the death of a newborn baby by the hands of a murderous monster. She didn't experience the event, she caused it.
Why would a nurse lay hands on the stomach of a girl who said she had menstrual cramps?
Some of these girls are rather heavy and it's hard to tell whether they are pregnant or fat, especially when they are wearing those huge sweatshirts, or that empire-waist stuff that is stylish now and looks like maternity wear even on girls that aren't pregnant. At school you don't dare ask, because if you're wrong you can get in all sorts of trouble.
When I was in high school a gazillion years ago, when people still got kicked out for being pregnant, there was one girl no one had any idea was pregnant until she went in labor and went to the nurses' office.
I'd be more inclined to wonder about the parents, although I know at least two mothers who were clueless about their own daughters until the last moment because of that oversized sweatshirt thing...
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