Woman Gives Birth to Stillborn Baby, Throws Baby in the Dumpster

Life News ^ | July 25, 2025 | Steven Ertelt

[Morgana]

FReepers in the old days, like 1980's and before, what did women do if they gave birth to a still born baby at home?

I would think most of them might have buried the child either in a cemetery or in the back yard.

Did stories like this every make the news?

[gitmo]

[Chickensoup]

Yes the occasional story.

[NFHale]

“Byresha”….

Yup.

[frank ballenger]

Home Burial by Robert Frost was his poem about a mourning couple and their child. A professor said such things were common in rural areas in past times in America.

He and his wife Elinor had a child die at one day old.

Elinor Bettina Frost (1907 - 1907).
Born 1907 in Derry, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
Died 1907 age one day.

[frank ballenger]

I once tried to search the Dragnet episode of the baby girl infant in a garbage can who was barely alive and then survived.

On the way I had to push away a number of stories of recent and older news stories such as a Detroit woman putting her newborn in a dumpster and more.

I had not known this was a rather common event. Search says “multiple instances”.
As Christian authors say “This is a Fallen World.”

By the way “Dragnet 1967” Juvenile: DR-35 (Season 3, Episode 25, 1969) - Four day old infant.

[existentially_kuffer]

Woman of color!

[Secret Agent Man]

Oh come on, its what any modern mother would do. “Dad” (and I say that in quotes because she probably doesn’t know exactly who the dad is) is probably in prison or working to get there, so obviously he couldn’t do it.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

““Byresha”….

Yup.”

Rhymes with, “Bi-racial,” and she kind of looks like it.

[ridesthemiles]

LOOKS CLOSER TO 13 THAN TO 31.

[Tennessee Nana]

Abortion or abortion pill ???

[Jamestown1630]

That is so sad.

My grandmother lost her middle child only a few days after it birth, around 1910. She still cried over that baby in her nineties.

[AuntB]

No one had babies at home then. Maybe the 40’s.
It would have been illegal as well to dispose of the corpse.
Its likely this baby wasn’t still born.
Anyone who could throw their dead baby out would kill it.

[No name given]

It’s them again, Yogi.

[No name given]

Good question.

[maddog55]

Red dye is harmful.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

With a name like "Byresha", I didn't need to see the picture.

The name alone pegged my "Yogi-Meter".

[hal ogen]

I guess this means that bryesha is out of the running for “Mother of the Year”.

[napscoordinator]

It is surprising. It’s typically white woman who do this.