**”Would you keep the baby?” was said a lot those days.**
Has anything been confirmed that Maria was truly planning to keep the baby? i.e. had she prepared a nursery area in Durham’s home? Purchased any clothing, diapers etc.,?
Was there any possibility she had found an adoptive couple in Texas to pay her expenses and keep the baby following childbirth?
She may have told Laurean some or all of her plans - and they didn’t include exonerating him from rape charges or allowing him to know whether the child was his.
Excellent point! And that would make more sense too....if the adoptive couple invited her to come down and meet them.
I don’t see an 8 month pregnant woman being willing to sit on a bus for umpteen hours (talk about misery) unless there was a very very very good reason.
Your adoption theory really works.
It would explain the ticket to El Paso.