14-Year-Old Arrested After Her Newborn Suffocates

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i also want every one to think, if she had a special need would you think differently about it.



http://www.kptv.com/news/23995023/detail.html


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HOUSTON (AP) — A 14-year-old who gave birth at her friend’s Houston apartment, then helped discard the newborn’s body after he suffocated, was arrested after a child who witnessed the death told a school counselor, authorities said Tuesday.

Houston police said no adults were present — only another 14-year-old and two 11-year-olds — when the girl gave birth April 16, and the group learned about child birth from the Internet. The newborn was placed on a mattress and was “alive for some time,” but died after his head was covered with the amniotic sac, Senior Officer C.P. Abbey said.

“We were a little surprised ourselves that these kids gave birth in an apartment,” Abbey said. “Our question to them was, ‘How did you know how to do this?’ and they said they had looked it up on a computer.”

The newborn never cried, and no one called 911.

Instead, after the infant died, the group wrapped him in a plastic bag and called an adult neighbor, who told police he put the baby in a large trash bin at the apartment complex. The group also threw out the bed linens, clothing and the bed.

The garbage had been taken to a landfill by the time investigators learned about the death. They said the landfill was too big to search.

some body left this comment: marighc
6-25-2010 1:50 am
man i kno this lil girl dats ma lil cuzin nd i love her alot. but everythin they sayin about her is a lie she didnt kill her baby as soon as she had da child she passed out so da lil kids didnt kno wat to do. how were da lil kids suppose to kno dat they were suppose to pop da bag da baby came out with. and i kno they were scared. and by da way you couldnt notice she pregnant she had came to ma house on february and yea all ma cousins told her dat she was gettin fat and i noticed dat she kinda got sad but i told her man dont worry about them. u couldnt notice because she was kinda a big bone but not that much we taught she was just gainin weight because she was growin up. she has never sat down wit both of her parent beacause they are separated she never had a talk wit her parents together i guess dats was she was scared. well i pray for her love u cuz

good poll

When I was working at McDonald's some lady from the University had a baby in our bathroom. Then dumped the baby in a trash can outside. Luckily our maintenance man found the baby before it died and, was able to call medics to the scene. I still remember to this day seeing the fear in the eyes of the lady who we later found out did this.

I think that people like this need help. Jail isn't the place to get that help. They would probably be better served in a mental institution.

She is a child, for goodness sakes. She did nothing that would make her a threat to society and should not be removed from it.

once upon a time, nobody cared...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_ ... 384460.stm

She could have put the baby up, for adoption. That's the way that I feel, and I have nothing left to add to this thread. This is where I stand.

She's too young to understand. I was thinking the other day about something that happened when I was in Grade 9 - nothing like this, it was only that a classmate eloped and her mother was sobbing on TV and begging her to come home - we thought it was wonderful. Even if we'd known where she was, we wouldn't have told her mother. We were only 14, we didn't understand.

If I'm reading this correctly, it was an accidental death following childbirth, about which nothing could be done. Attempting to dispose of the body was of course wrong, but hardly unexpected from a 14-year-old who just gave birth in secret. Punishment is not the solution here, what they need is many hours of counseling. The adult who helped them should have known better, and I do think they should receive punishment.

You can't possibly consider giving a 14-year-old a life sentence for attempting to cover up something that would have gotten them in a lot of trouble. I don't think you can give anyone a life sentence for that, it's a simple and non-malicious instinct of self-preservation.