Posted on 12/13/2006 8:56:07 AM PST by Sopater
NEW YORK — A 14-year-old girl may have tossed her newborn baby, an umbilical cord still attached, out the window of her Bronx apartment building, police said Tuesday.
The teen was being questioned by police at Jacobi Hospital, where the baby girl was pronounced dead on arrival, said police spokesman, Sgt. Carlos Nieves.
Police were dispatched to the Eastchester Gardens apartments at about 8 a.m. Tuesday after a man called 911 and reported that someone had thrown a baby out the window. When officers arrived, the infant was lying unclothed on a patch of grass near the building, police said.
It was unclear how the infant died. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
The teen, whose name was not released, had not been charged. Police said she lived on the fifth floor of building.
Resident Maxine Thomas, 40, said she was sleeping before going to her afternoon job when her neighbor knocked on the door and told her police were at the building.
"She told me there was some baby thrown through a window," said Thomas, who has a 2-year-old daughter. "I don't know from which floor or who it was."
Thomas said police posted fliers in her building asking residents with information to come forward
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Forgive me for speculating so boldly, but might it not be related to be thrown out of a fifth story window in an apartment house? Or is that an unreasonable assumption?
I'm thinking they weren't sure if the baby was dead before being thrown or not.
ping. Just damn.
Should anyone be surprised by this? When you devalue life with abortion-on-demand, and you raise little narcissists who care only about themselves, this is what happens.
I think the culture of contraception has also added to the problem. Many people justify abortion because of contraception failure as, "Well I didn't want it".
This easily translates into abortion where contraception wasn't used because, "Well I didn't want it" and then to infanticide because "Well I didn't want it".
She executed her own really late term abortion.
Charge her with practicing medicine without a license.
Murder.
Not much different from partial-birth abortion. The skull gets collapsed either way.
This girl should have gone to Wichita to Dr. Tiller, and he would have relieved her of her "burden" woth no consequences.
Tiller will kilee them right up to the moment of birth--and sometimes, even after.
Bad typos: "with", "kill"
Bad typos: "with", "kill"
Sickening.
But as other posters have said, what can we expect from a society where babies are disposable and the disabled and elderly are "better off dead"?
How did you arrive at this conclusion?
It's things happening like this that make me remember a Thomas Jefferson quote, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."
14 and pregnant? Someone needs to go to jail!
I don't buy into all the society minimalizing the worth of human life causing this, as much as a scared young girl freaked out of her mind. Maybe mentally retarded or drugs for cripes sake, who knows.
Could have been stillborn, or it could have been killed before it was thrown out of the window. In this sort of case, cause of death will be a big factor in what sort of charges are filed.
You are correct about that. Someone absolutely needs to go to jail when a 14-year-old is pregnant.
No doubt she was freaked out, and probably very frightened/confused. No fourteen-year-old should be dealing with sex and pregnancy. It's tragic beyond belief. And she may have some other disabilities, but that is speculation.
However none of this tempers this girl tossing her baby out a window. At the age of 14, unless there is a profound mental disability (which hasn't been mentioned), fourteen-year-olds know that throwing a child out of a window is wrong.
One of the lovely things about PP (Planned Parenthood) and all "abortion providers" is that they routinely cover up for whoever impregnated the 9 year old, 12 year old, or 14 year old to whom they are "providing their services."
I'd be willing to bet money that this girl was not impregnated by another 14 year old (it happens, of course), but by an adult who is being protected. I read a while ago that in the case of young pregnant teenagers, the average age of the father is in his late 20s. That's the average age, so that means that most of them are significantly older than she is, and some of them are a whole lot older.
That doesn't excuse her, but it sure doesn't excuse "Daddy," who was probably one of Mama's boyfriends who saw a quick chance for a little diversion on the side.
And there are so many couples aching to adopt a baby.
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Beyond all else that has been said on this thread, and justly so, I feel sorry for the police. I can't imagine they will ever forget the sight and experience of this dreadful event.
According to Channel 9 News, the boyfriend and father of the baby is 22 years old.
Correct. When are the Feds going to start targeting PP? So many of the abortions performed there are on underage girls who got pregnant by 20-something men? There are laws being broken and PP doesn't give a damn...they just want to abort as many unborn babies as they can get their hands on.
Old enough to know better. Or old enough to marry her and bring up their child - but I guess that's not done anymore.
The thing that really disgusted me when I used to do vigils outside of PP "clinics" in NYC was the number of mothers who were bringing their (weeping) daughters in to have abortions. The mothers ranged all the way from the Puerto Rican housecleaner to the upper middle class Jewish doctor, and it completely stunned me to see them doing this
In the great majority of cases, these girls had been exploited by older men. And Mother and PP were covering up. They had somehow been brainwashed to believe that part of the life of the new "feminist" female (I won't say woman, because in our society, a 14 year old is not a woman) is to put up with any exploitation by males and blame herself for it. She was just "expressing her sexuality," or something like that. I bet most of the contributors to PP are men over the age of 40.
As a mom, I believe the message sent by other mothers taking their daughters (ESPECIALLY their UNDERAGE daughters) in for an abortion is almost as tragic as the abortion procedure itself.
The message sent is terrible on all levels...for the girl, the unborn child, the child's father, society. You name it.
It has been revealed, last night, that the mother "may have" over medicated the child.
So, what did she do? Call 911 -- No. She wrapped the child in a garbage bag making sure that the ends was securely fastened and drove to a trash bin for disposal of her own child.
She then proceeded to go home and eat noodles and watch a movie with her husband and 7 year old child after they returned from a party they were attending while this horrible thing happened.
Sick. Just freakin' sick.
I really don't know what else to say...
It depends on where you split the hair. If you include the murder of the pre-born then it would be more common now, yes.
If however you are talking about the murder/abandonment of born alive infants then I would have to say percentage wise that it is less.
Part of that comes from the fact that we have made it easier for a mother to surrender her child voluntarily and even anonymously if she wishes. Part of it comes from that we have made it easier for her to keep the child.
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