Bronx Teen Charged with Killing her Baby

2008_10_gsbx.jpgA homeless Bronx teenager charged with killing her newborn child, and the woman who took in the teen is devastated. The Daily News reports that Esther Pastrana, 17, had been kicked out of a friend's Manhattan home, where a neighbor, who saw Pastrana "weeping in the hallway," called Lysdell Ocasio. Ocasio (pictured), who readily agreed to house the teen, repeatedly asked Pastrana if she was pregnant, but she denied it. On Saturday, Ocasio's husband found the teen on the bathroom floor, tried to revive the baby and called 911. While Pastrana said she dropped the baby, cops say the 5-pound boy was strangled. Ocasio was stunned, "The fact that she could have called out for help - 'Help me, I'm giving birth!' She could have told me, 'I'm having labor pains!'"

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Jesus Christ. Some people need to be sterilized.

...and the republicans interfere with sex education in public schools.

even immigrants are killing their anchor babies now? you know how much social security this bitch would have received if she had her baby on US soil? I guess it's good for the US economy

Ms. Ocasio has more than fulfilled her community outreach/ charity work for life. Poor woman tries to do something good an end up with this mess on her hands?

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