a 14-year-old texan has a baby in the bathroom of her (junior high) school and promptly tries to flush it down the toilet. another student hears a baby crying and runs to get the nurse. by the time nursie gets there, the baby is dead, young mom bleeding into the toilet. no word on whether or not the afterbirth had squeaked its way out by then or not.
the baby was full term. the school, Cedar Bayou Junior School, doesn’t seem to be one of those hellish inner-city gangster mills; it runs a number of arts programs and sustains (at least according to their website) quite a bit of parental involvement in school activities.
the girl has been charged with murder, and every news story that i have found about this case focuses on whether or not she can be executed for her actions — if she is tried as a juvenile, she can’t get the death penalty, not even in texas, the capital punishment capitol of the country. none of the articles mention anything about her family.
a 14-year-old girl carries a baby for nine months without a SINGLE adult in her little world bothering to notice, is so terrified of anyone finding out about this baby that she births it sitting alone on a toilet, and our first concern is whether or not we can kill HER? going several steps further even than this, the asshole republican ranter says that “if a 14-year-old girl can’t keep her legs together, she’s nothing but a whore” and “there’s no reason that this girl should not know what she did was
murder, and frankly, she needs to be made an example of so that
teenagers in the future DON’T do this… Frankly, ANYBODY who commits
infanticide should be given the death penalty.”
a whore? not if it was her own daddy who raped her and got her pregnant, and everything about this case is screaming INCEST in big, green, ugly blood-red letters. no boyfriend, the babyfather is “unknown”, not a single quote from nor mention of the parents in any of the stories.
my take on this story is that the girl is so terrified of anybody finding out that she will do anything, ANYTHING to keep it secret. she spends, minimum, six months under the looming threat of this baby coming into her life and tearing it apart. then They will know what daddy (or uncle bob, or her big brother) has been doing to her every night she she was nine. and if Mommy finds out it will kill her, daddy SAID so, he told her that if she ever said a word to anybody about these nightime things that it would Kill her mom straight-out dead and she LOVES her Mom and would never do anything to hurt her, and she is a bad girl anyway, very bad bad girl, if she wasn’t a bad girl daddy wouldn’t do those Things and if she wasn’t a bad girl she wouldn’t be pregnant and it is all her fault and she has to make it go away somehow just make it disappear and everything will be all right and mommy won’t Die.
is that the mindset of a cold-blooded murderer?
hopefully someone connected with this case is asking the right questions. and if it turns out to have been her daddy (or her cousin or whatever), i would gladly shove that sick motherfucker into the electric chair with my own two hands.
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How many lives — daughters and their children— does incest destroy in this country? Veiled by secrecy, those who come out about it are vilified as insane–and often survivors *are* severely mentally ill, thus “unreliable witnesses.”
Whether this girl is an incest victim or not, she is a child, and one lacking all the usual love and support given children. Not even someone to talk to.
Larissa
As Larissa points out, many victims of incest *are* mentally ill; I do a lot of support for PTSD sufferers still recovering (if that’s possible) from childhood rape (for it is always rape where a child is concerned).
It’s Ranting, not ranter, for the record.
And if it were really a case of incest, why would the lawyer continue the argument that she didn’t know that she was pregnant, and she didn’t know that she was giving birth? You can’t lie and say it wasn’t incest in court if it really was, otherwise that’s perjury. The truth will have to come out eventually, and the truth is that it’s not incest.
“Use every man after his desert, and who shall escape whipping?”
- Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2.2
You are so right that this case screams incest. But even if it didn’t, why so much hatred toward a terrified 14-year-old child? What properly nurtured child would find herself in this position? Not ONE! This girl has been badly mistreated; and now abusers are piling on, just like a pack of wild animals going after prey.
What is it they do when too many wild animals begin to overtake an ecosystem? It’s time to thin the fucking pack.
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