Discarded babies

Jan 29, 2004 07:45 PM

by Browneyedgirl

In the news this week, a newborn was found in a ditch at around 6 a.m. naked buy still covered in bodily fluids. It was around 20 degrees here when this baby was found.

HOW does this happen?

The mother for lack of a better word has not come forward yet. The police are saying they are not interested in pressing charges at this time.

I don't understand for the life of me how someone can bring a life into this world and then just toss the child into a ditch...no blanket, no bath...nothing

Even if she were very very young, most 10-11 yo girls won't even put a pet out in this frigid weather...so how does one toss a baby out?

warrior woman · Jan 29, 2004, 07:51 PM

Just another symptom of an ailing society. Disposable diapers, disposable kids. So very tragic and sad.

bonjovigirl · Jan 29, 2004, 07:53 PM

a young mother here in philadelphia stabbed her toddler two or three times with a steak knife and left her in the snow. THe baby is alive, and there has been an outpouring of support for the child, hunreds of people want to give her money, and a home. So, when you feel sick to your stomache about something so horrendous try to remember, for every one sicko there are hundreds of good people. However hard it is to think that when you hear these stories. There are so many wonderful people who want a baby so badly, and can't have one and these monsters have them and do such horrible things. Its so unfair.

fergus51 · Jan 29, 2004, 09:47 PM

If there is one thing I have learned in my job, it's that maternal instincts are not as natural or ingrained as we would like to think. It is incredibly sad, especially when you consider that all a mother has to do is leave a baby at a hospital, a church, wherever and it would be taken care of.

ADNRN · Jan 29, 2004, 09:50 PM

The mother was probably insane.

If she wasn't; if she was just a garden variety psychopath she would have had an abortion long before it was born--or just before it was born.

fergus51 · Jan 29, 2004, 10:03 PM

Do you mean you would think she was a "garden variety psychopath" if she had an abortion (rather than giving birth and leaving the infant to die)?

?burntout · Jan 29, 2004, 10:19 PM

I wish I could describe the anger that is going through my veins toward this "mother" (and I use that term lightly

).

I will never understand.. WHY???

There are loving, caring people out there who have tried for years to have a child and they can't, or their children die. I just do not understand why people who apparently have NO BUSINESS WHAT SO EVER having a baby-get too?! We see it on the news all the time about these people who are throwing away or KILLING their children...I just do not understand why THEY get to have a child, a precious gift, that they do not appreciate and those of us who deserve a baby...go through hell and back to have the family we have dreamed about for so long.

jewelsg627 · Jan 29, 2004, 10:19 PM

It truly makes me nauseous to think that people are actually capable of doing horrendous things like this. It true, I agree---it is very unfair that so many wonderful and gifted families/couples want to have children but cannot, yet idiots (and other words I will refrain from using) pop out kids like its nothing and then do things like this...it truly makes me bitterly angry and horribly sad...

PSA, RN · Jan 29, 2004, 10:28 PM

I too wonder how someone could do such a thing.
Here in our state anyone can drop a baby off at the local hospital and not have to answer any questions. Is it that way in your state?
Just last month there was a stillborn baby found in a dumpster here. And last year there was another baby found along side the road. My heart goes out to these children.. At least they will not have to grow up in this cruel world.

Jay-Jay · Jan 29, 2004, 10:37 PM

Like some of the other posters in this thread, I very badly wanted to have a family, but was unable to. Since I got married quite late in life, and married an older man, we also decided that adoption would not really be a great idea either. Needless to say, this type of story always makes me rage at the callousness and stupidity of such mothers, and the unfairness of life. Okay, maybe she didn't want the child, or couldn't keep it, ...but for heaven's sake, at LEAST she could have put it up for adoption!!

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Discarded babies

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