Gothamist: Janitor Finds Baby Dead in Trash

mihow

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:21:26 -0500

It's not that simple, jammer. Obviously this can't be said for all cases but I can think of a few over the last couple of years where it turns out the "mothers" were actually little girls. (There was the 13-year-old who was recently busted throwing a newborn out the window. The father was a 23/24 year old man. There was the teen ager a couple of years back who threw not one, but two of her babies out a window into an empty lot below. They only found the first one [which had been killed a year or so earlier] after discovering the second one.) These young women are hardly women and they're abused by older men and then become pregnant. I think we need to try and stop that from happening because, chances are, if we did something about sexual abuse less babies might be found in the trash 9 months later. I am not forgiving the girls for doing this, it's horrible, truly. But they aren't always grown women making selfish decisions. They're little girls.

jammer

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:07:12 -0500

mandatory hysterectomies for mothers who kill their children!

me

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:57:39 -0500

before all the hate-filled morons start weighing in on this story, let me just say that this is a fucking tragedy. so sad... an innocent , helpless baby literally thrown away like garbage. what must be going through the minds of the people who did this? are they mentally ill? or simply so overwhelmed and ill-prepared to be parents that this act actually seems like a good idea??? fucking horrible and heartbreaking - that's all.

Steve

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:53:58 -0500

There's something endemic about these 'baby in the trash' stories. I have to wonder if the mothers exist in a universe where people casually go missing and bits of miscellaneous gore are routinely chucked into dumpsters and trash cans.