For all you out there wanting to blame only her - think about all the people who would have condemned her for having a baby out of wedlock. Family members too. Maybe her husband.
Girls who got pregnant in those days were severely punished. The guys just walked away, sometimes with a smile.
A lot of people talk about repentance and forgiveness but very few actually believe in it. But their lust for vengeance is real enough even if they’ve never heard of the person or the crime they’re condemning.
How did she get pregnant? I’m just a few years older than her, it wasn’t the Puritan era at that time. She might have been shamed in some social circles, but we were past the hard condemnation, and I am confused why women are exempt from from consequences. There was a time women recognized sex outside of marriage had consequences. Now we kill those consequences.
Then she is the only one responsible.
There were any number of other options.
She chose murder.
Are you kidding? It was 1981 not 1941. Wasn’t nearly as bad as you make it out to be in America in those days unless you lived in some kind of an Amish society or something. Taking a babies life in 1981 was downright selfish and unforgivable. There was always adoption you know? Murder should never have been an option.
It was 1981 not 1921. Out of wedlock births were no longer a scandal. I assume she was hiding her pregnancy so she could just as easily have hidden giving birth.
She was a college student who, instead of going to an ER and giving the baby up for adoption, suffocated her newborn and threw away the body like a piece of garbage.
Maybe in 1955, but not 1985. BTW, one of my sisters got pregnant at 16 in 1966 when we lived in Vallejo, California. She was not shunned by my parents or anyone else
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Oh, please. Seriously?
The one severely punished here was the poor murdered baby. But I guess that innocent child does not count in your estimation.
Girls who got pregnant in those days were severely punished.
What BS.
I don’t know how old you are.
But we who were in HS and collage in the 70’s. Can tell you a different story.
The 80’s there was even less problems for unwed mothers.
Several of my HS and collage classmates got pregnant.
They Ethier got married and went onto raise their children by themselves.
"The good old days," to some of the men on here.