[podkane]

She wasn't a kid- she was 21 years old, an adult by any standard. She was in Los Angeles, where she had many options. She could have left the baby at a safe haven, anything. Instead she murdered her newborn baby- how could she do it while holding her own child in her arms, a living, breathing being I will never understand.

The first birth is usually the most agonizing, and to be going through it alone must have been completely terrifying. There is often a good deal of blood lost, and if she had no medical attention, she might not have been thinking clearly.

I can't help but think that most of the "burn the witch" crowd posting here are men - who don't have the faintest idea of the physical toll of pregnancy and childbirth on a body. Before modern medicine, childbirth was one of the top killers of women.

This is a tragedy. No woman under the best of circumstances expects to go through childbirth alone. Something else was going on/not going on for woman/girl to have done this.

[Cicero]

P.S. Out of curiosity, are you Podkane of Mars, or some other podkane? The name rings a bell.

[Politicalmom]

I am a woman. I have had FOUR children. This woman is an evil, selfish witch. She should go to prison for the rest of her life.

Was she too stupid to call 911? NO. She wanted to be able to get rid of the baby without anyone noticing.

[LWalk18]

Read post 28- it looks like this wasn't her first birth at all.