[NYer]

He now lives with foster parents

The states need to sever ties with these birthmothers, especially in cases of abandonment, and free the babies for adoption. I know of too many people who wanted to adopt their foster children but were prevented from doing so, because the state found "blood" relatives who needed another dime in state aid.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Why all the secrecy around the real father? What if Perez's father was his own grandson's father? Would the mother have been sentenced as such? The real father gets off with NO responsibility for this ugly result.

[hellinahandcart]

I just do not understand this. I also don't understand how the girl could actually give birth a few feet away from her family and expect to get away with it undiscovered.

[hellinahandcart]

Another one.

[Maceman]

I'm guessing her fellow inmates are going to make life a little difficult for her when they learn what she's in for.

[Liberty 5-3000]

Perez said she placed the baby in the garbage so he would be found.

Yeah, because I am constantly looking in the garbage cans of diners for things (?)

She needs some psychological help if she thinks that is the right way to go about getting your kid some help.

[hot august night]

She also should be sterilized so she can never have children again. Of course, that would never happen because it would be "racist."

That woman who left her kids in the car for three hours so they could bake to death is pregnant, and that just enrages me more...just like that trashy 'vegan' NY couple who starved their daughter, and now they are about to pop out another kid.

[theartfuldodger]

I don't see a difference between this and abortion. If this is evil, then so is abortion.

[MEGoody]

The pro-abortionists think that the availability of abortion keeps things like this from happening. It seems to me that incidents of this type have increased signficantly since abortion was made legal. Abortion didn't eliminate or even lessen the instances of woman abandoning, abusing or murdering their own childre. After all, if the baby can be killed right up to the moment it's little head pops out of the birth canal, why not a few moments after?

[NC_Libertarian]

At Thursday's sentencing, Perez said she placed the baby in the garbage so he would be found.

4 years is outrageous especially considering the obvious lack of remorse.

[montag813]

What a ridiculous wrist-slapping. She left this poor child for DEAD...HOPED it would die. What is the sentence for attempted murder? In Texas it is way more than 4 years. Frankly, this animal should be put in prion until she is no longer able to conceive, or 10 years minimum and a consent to be sterilized.