A little compassion here.. if she had what the article described as a "medically unattended delivery", she was probably in agony for hours, scared out of her mind, and desperate as hell.
My main question is where were her friends? Where were the other adults is her life that had to have noticed her condition? Women under the best of circumstances have often found childbirth a harrowing and painful experience, much more so if a kid was alone and terrified.
There is way more to this story here, and I don't think any of it will reflect well on her friends and family...
She was in college, I'm sure the University of Southern California has a top-notch health clinic with doctors more than capable of delivering a baby. Make any excuse you want, it was her selfishness that caused this, the only compassion I feel is for her murdered child.
A little compassion here.. if she had what the article described as a "medically unattended delivery", she was probably in agony for hours, scared out of her mind, and desperate as hell.
Gee if only there was like hospitals or something she could have went too
The compassion should be reserved for the child. The mother deserves condemnation for a brutal act of fanticide.
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.
I'm not so sure she is all that deserving of sympathy.
USC Student Was Focus of '04 Baby Investigation
L.A. Times - Oct 15, 2005
A 21-year-old USC student charged with her baby's abandonment and death this week also was investigated last year after she arrived at a hospital in downtown Los Angeles appearing to have just given birth but without a baby, according to law enforcement sources close to the case. In that April 2004 investigation, Holly Ashcraft eventually told authorities that the child had been stillborn and that she had disposed of its body on her own, the sources said.
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The sources and Ashcraft's attorney emphasized that she was never arrested or charged in connection with the incident in 2004.
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...she was probably in agony for hours, scared out of her mind, and desperate as hell.
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Oh, please! Surely, she knew she was pregnant. There are many places where she could have received medical help. Instead she chose to murder her child and discard it like rubbish. This selfish pig deserves no sympathy.