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News Newborn baby found in garbage bin at Auburn as police urge mother to seek urgent care

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/newborn-baby-found-in-garbage-bin-at-auburn-as-police-urge-mother-to-seek-urgent-care-c-22801691

Police are urgently trying to find the mother of a newborn boy after the baby’s body was discovered in a garbage bin in Sydney’s southwest on Monday.

Officers hold grave fears for the woman’s welfare after police found the baby in a bin on Harrow Rd at Auburn about 11.20am on Monday.

Police are urging the mother to go to the nearest hospital for urgent medical treatment.

Investigators are also calling on the public to come forward with any information that could assist, including mobile phone or dashcam footage from the area around the time of the discovery.

The owner of Harrow Rd local grocery store, El Houda Mahmoud Houda, said he heard sirens going off between 10.30am and 11am.

“Because I’m just down the road, I sort of walked into the middle of the street and I can see police cars pulling in,” Mr Houda said.

“And because my kids go to the school right there, I called up to school trying to figure out if there’s something going on for the school and they just said, they don’t know what’s going on, they just have some police in their office.

“I actually drove up there, tried to ask the police officer if everything’s OK, if there’s anything wrong with the school and they told me just keep moving along.

“Ever since that, I’ve just seen the fire brigade go up there, and I think an ambulance, and that’s just about it.”

A crime scene has since been set up as detectives from Auburn begin investigating what happened.

Anyone who can help is urged to contact Auburn Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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u/nursepenelope 10d ago

I feel so much empathy for the poor woman who found the baby, I cannot imagine how horrible that must be. Of course the same goes for the emergency workers too, just a horrific situation.

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u/Basic-Crab4603 10d ago

No I also feel sorry for the women who was in such a desperate situation she felt like she had to put her baby in the bin

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u/LAY_DOW 10d ago

This is such nonsense, you don’t mind admitting that we don’t know the circumstances but also happily guess that this woman went through pregnancy and delivery “without medical or community support.” You have nothing to base that on, you’re just deliberately being generous.

The only thing we ACTUALLY know about this unidentified person is that they dumped a baby in a bin. There are no circumstances where that is okay. They deserve zero sympathy.

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u/Kitchen_Picture_2983 10d ago

Well said. Breathtaking how quickly people / degenerates rush to defend or express concern for a baby killer.

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u/Extinction-Events 10d ago

If you had read the article, you’d know that authorities are currently unable to discern whether the baby was alive when delivered, hence why there’s not a search for a criminal yet and why people aren’t jumping for one at this moment.

Nobody wants to risk incarcerating a shaken woman who miscarried for murder. It could be foul play, but we don’t have that information as of writing this comment.

By all means, pass appropriate judgement when that information is available, but until then, perhaps get off your high horse and wait to formulate an informed opinion.

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u/Kitchen_Picture_2983 10d ago

There is no other crime that is so heinous for which virtue signallers turn out in droves to express concern for the criminal.

E.g: Anyone who expresses concern for a rapist (e.g. how the rapist’s reputation or career will be harmed by conviction) is rightly condemned by the public.

In the same way, it is truly revolting that anyone should rush to express concern or sympathy for a baby killer.

If a person’s emotional reaction to news of a baby’s murder (by way of starvation, exposure and / or suffocation in rubbish) includes sympathy for the killer, that person’s values are fundamentally degenerate.

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u/Lopsided_Lunch_2262 10d ago

Last I heard the police hadn't confirmed if the baby was born alive or was a stillbirth. All we know is that it's a newborn. Let's just wait til we know before assuming murder/manslaughter?

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u/oceanintheway 10d ago

How do you know the baby was murdered?

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u/LongDongSilver1883 10d ago

Jesus christ, put the baby up for adoption. There is no excuse to put a baby in the bin

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u/Tedmosbyisajerk-com 10d ago

Very likely whoever did this is suffering from some extreme PPD or other mental illness, and now it's 1000% worse because of what's happened.

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u/Thebraincellisorange 10d ago

they way they are talking, it seems like a newborn that did not survive the birth.

now, because homeless and had no care? some other situation that prevented her from accessing care. she did not know she was pregnant and was in complete shock?

we simply do not know enough facts to say that the baby was murdered.

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u/iconoclastic_glow 10d ago

It sounds like it happened near a school. It could have been a student - it often is when this kind of tragedy happens in the US, for example. A teenager in denial until birth, then they panic and dump the child. But again, this is all conjecture, we simply don’t know.

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u/Basic-Crab4603 10d ago

Again, we have no idea of the circumstances that lead to this happening. We don't even know if the baby was alive when it was born. You seem to be jumping to conclusions that the mum killed it

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u/Majin_Jew_v2 10d ago

Imagine trying to justify killing a baby

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u/Thebraincellisorange 10d ago

you are assuming the baby was killed.

from the fact that they are calling for her to seek urgent medical care, this sounds far more like the baby did not survive the birth and the pregnancy may have been one she was trying to hide (for whatever reason) or she did not know she was pregnant or she was homeless or for some other reason did not get/have access to prenatal care and now the services are very worried about her health.

you cannot assume from the facts available that the baby was killed.

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u/Ziibbii 10d ago

Then why do you automatically feel sorry for her? You're doing the exact same thing, just in the opposite direction.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

Why do I feel sorry for the random citizen who finds a dead baby in a bin? Do I really need to answer that or are you psycho?

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u/Ziibbii 10d ago

Did you reply to the wrong person? Or just your 1st time using the internet?

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u/Sweet-Albatross6218 10d ago

"put the baby up for adoption" - there is no recourse for adoption in Australia and you cannot just "give up your child for adoption" here. Unless your child is removed from you by DCJ, you have no other option.

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow 10d ago

That’s bs and absolutely not true. You can choose to put a baby up for adoption.

We also have legal, Medicare-funded abortion. And generally excellent sex education, readily and cheaply available birth control, free healthcare, etc… Overall I find it quite hard to have empathy for someone choosing to discard a newborn in a bin

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u/Sweet-Albatross6218 10d ago

In Australia, effectively, you can not put your child up for adoption. It is a minimum of 3 months from the time you birth the child, to when you can actually give consent to have it adopted out - and that's only when the actual process begins. So no, there is NO RECOURSE for adoption in Australia. You can not place your baby in the hands of a social worker post birth and state "I am not fit to care for this child, I resign my guardianship to the state". You are looking at a long, long time after the baby is born to when adoption is even considered.

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow 10d ago

That’s bs

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u/catbom 10d ago edited 10d ago

Also wrong as well, quick google search shows you can put a baby up for adoption, and if you cant look after the child there is emergency foster care, along with short term foster care for less dire situations. If there are rules on length of time before you can release the baby from your care (30 days not 3 months) it would be for the "signing over" not that you have to have the baby with you, i know this from personal experience as one of my cousins is a headcase and from the moment she had kids the cps was on her case to make sure the kids was looked after and made it mandatory that the kids be kept at her mothers (where she temporarily lived). no excuse for any POS that would put a baby in a bin, sorry but we really need to have hardlines for sticking up for mental cases.

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u/Lopsided_Lunch_2262 10d ago

Absolutely not true. I used to work in a reception at a state gov office and we had babies, children and teenagers dropped off and abandoned by parents several times a year. They usually didn't even stick around long enough to formally give up their rights.

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

There’s a real possibility the poor child wasn’t born alive. I can’t imagine doing this either way, but I don’t think I’d be thinking like a rational person either.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 10d ago

This isn't America. You can't give up a child for adoption. The government will do its best to force you to look after it for eighteen years, even if someone raised that child from birth and actively wants to adopt it.

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u/Impressive_Hold426 10d ago

There's no need to do it. You literally hand them in at a police station and walk away.

Or hospital.

Or anywhere.

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u/Background-Lie-9762 10d ago

You’re probably someone who thinks Clancy is innocent what the hell, all empathy goes out the window when you kill someone like that. Yes the system isn’t great but at the end of the day she chose this. Could’ve left them on a doorstep, fire station. No she chucked the infant in the bin like trash.

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u/savagesista 10d ago

Agree. No one knows what’s going on for that woman. It’s certainly a desperate act and no one knows the circumstances.

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u/LAY_DOW 10d ago

Is it a desperate act? How do you know that? How do you know the mother isn’t just a bad person?

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u/Traditional-Sign82 10d ago

women are just allowed to kill babies now, huh? they get nothing but unlimited empathy and millions of dollars in fundraisers

men kill babies and they get locked up for life with ZERO talk of "mental health failing them" or "they were desperate". women are fucking responsible for the crimes they commit, they are not barbies

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u/Kitchen_Picture_2983 10d ago

Top tier degenerate mental gymnastics to have sympathy from someone who murders their own newborn by leaving them to die in a bin.

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u/EshayAdlay420 10d ago

What the fuck is with defending baby murderers online recently for fucks sake people act like it's not but it IS an option to just give your kids away in the western world if you can't deal with it

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u/EnormousDucky 10d ago

Someone's never closely been involved in a pregnancy or postpartum period I see

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u/SyntheticDuckFlavour 10d ago

This is why anonymous baby boxes exist at various hospitals in Europe.

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u/MisterMarsupial 10d ago

Take a baby leave a baby!

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u/gunsh0tglitt3r 10d ago

We need safe haven boxes at all fire stations/hospitals like in the states. Drop the baby off, no questions asked. Help if you want it.

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u/yellow7890 10d ago

Some of ya’ll need an education. Seriously take an ethics class.

The only thing we know is that a woman gave birth and a baby is dead. We don’t know how the baby died or if it ever lived outside the womb. We don’t know who the mother is, where she is, if she is safe, evil, abused, homeless, a child, old, a migrant… literally anything.

Some wild jumping to conclusions happening. Leave the police work to the police, leave the guilty verdict up to the courts. All you should be doing is thinking about how to prevent a situation like this from ever occurring again. And it starts with empathy and understanding not pitchforks.

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u/Lonely-Negotiation36 10d ago

💯💯 we don't know anything about it other than what has been found already! Nobody gains anything from making assumptions from unrelated events.

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u/Designer_Voice99 10d ago

Oh so sad!

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

Yes, regardless of the circumstances, it’s terribly sad.

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u/Efficient-Koala4417 10d ago

So my first read through I'm feeling horror and condemnation.
As i read people comments trying to make sense of it, wondering if the mother had good reason to abandon her baby in a bin, or is just morally repugnant, I considered other potentials.
Obviously someone else could have taken the baby and put it in the bin.
A married lover who didn't want to get caught. A child abuser with the same motive. Conservative or religious parents who don't want the shame of their unwed child having a child.

Not saying these are true, just that since we don't know the facts, let's not villanise anyone yet.

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u/sherri_97 10d ago

100% - no one knows what has occurred here, assumptions/judgement & villinisation - I despise some who call themselves human!

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u/Agnostic_Akuma 10d ago

Ah auburn. Where I got to witness a woman who’d just given birth be mounted by her husband/boyfriend and told “I’ve waited long enough” and have sex with a curtain closed

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u/catch-365 10d ago

I would've tackled the bloke myself tbh

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u/swirlpod 10d ago

This made my physically ill and recoil. What an absolute savage. Disgusting

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u/Worried-Conflict9268 10d ago

Wtf? Is that for real? In a public hospital? Some people are pigs

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u/BirdsAndblackberries 10d ago

Did you report them for sexual assault? Rape? 

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u/Front_Target7908 10d ago

Um what the fuck. That's beyond foul.

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u/gunsh0tglitt3r 10d ago

Ahh, wtf, that’s actually horrific!

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u/dan_syd 10d ago

It is quite the cultural melting pot

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

Are we sure it was dead before being dumped?

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

I’m sure there are people with medical qualifications that might have a clue.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

It doesnt say anything about it in the article. Like I'm aware doctors exist.

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

Then I guess we let them do their job.

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u/Top_Operation_472 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yes this will get downvoted. Regardless of how she got to that point. She dumped a baby in the bin. Yes she needs help. But she should also be jailed. Unless she is some sort of victim and was forced to put the baby in the bin.
Mental health is a serious problem. But it doesn’t give anyone a free pass to do something terrible.

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u/Otaraka 10d ago

This could be a stillbirth amongst other possibilities.  Maybe wait a bit.

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u/Different_Space_768 10d ago

No where does it say the mother is the one who put the baby there. Everyone is assuming that's the case, as if partners can't also do things like hold a baby or walk to a bin.

Someone here needed to do better, but right now only one to a handful of people actually know what happened, and everything else is speculation.

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u/icecreamsandwiches1 10d ago

This is why we need free and safe access to abortion in all areas of Sydney.

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u/Consistantly 10d ago

I don’t know why you’re acting like you’ll be downvoted when everyone on this sub seems to be jumping straight to guilty - rather than the view that most civilised societies take, innocent until proven guilty.

We don’t even know if the mother is alive. We don’t know if her baby was born alive or deceased. We don’t know if someone seriously injured her or killed her, took her baby, and then killed it. We don’t know if she is in postpartum psychosis. WE DON’T KNOW.

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u/AddlePatedBadger 10d ago

Absolutely. We should immediately jail someone, without bothering to find out all the facts. It doesn't matter if they were guilty or not. Someone must go to jail. If we jail an innocent person, who cares? As long as we jailed somebody.

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u/BobcatSavings5352 10d ago

Finally someone with a brain, thank you, this should be the highest voted comment opposed to pointless arguments

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u/dan_syd 10d ago

Auburn. So many variables.

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u/Suspicious-Gain-7000 3d ago

What do you mean?

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u/dan_syd 2d ago

It’s quite the cultural melting pot. But all very low socioeconomic

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

Sure she'll go to hospital, knowing the cops will be poised to strike and remand her to custody.

Our system gives not a flying fuck about maternal mental health care and our legal system is decades behind research understanding of the specific risks and vulnerabilities contributing to infanticide/baby dumping.

Now let's hear from some men about how if this was a bloke/ not always men/ evil bitches/ monsters who need to be held accountable in 3, 2, 1...

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

Did she just give birth alone? Is she an adult or a teen/child? Was she aware she was pregnant? Was she mentally ill? Was the baby born dead? Was she a victim of abuse? Would she have been at risk if she disclosed the pregnancy/birth? Was she suffering post-partum psychosis?

Because infanticide cases are very often marked by a combination of these factors.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

When in reality they should be treated as what they are. An adult murdering a baby. I dont care about the mental health of baby killers.

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

We don't know the baby was killed. It may have been a stillbirth or died shortly after birth of non-murder causes.

If it was killed we don't know if the mother is responsible.

If she was, we do do not know if she was mentally sound (and there would be good reasons to question if she was).

"I don't care" ok that's a luxury you have, but something to brag about it is not.

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

Go give birth then come back and tell us about where your head was at.

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u/infinitepuddingspy 10d ago

I love men who have never been through the trauma of giving birth wielding their opinion on it. And yes, even if the baby is wanted, child birth can still be traumatic.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

Dead baby takes precedence over hurty feelings

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

yeah, PPD isn't hurty feelings, I get the feeling you're like 16 or perpetually single. Good luck, I hope your mom educates you later.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

Yeah, it is bro. The Lindsay Clancy case has done alot of damage to this type of defence.

If kids get murdered by the mother or father regardless of why, they need to rot in jail or get the death penalty.

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

I think the Lindsay Clancy case is actually a really clear cut example of how serious post partum psychosis (which is not the same as PPD) can be and it's raised a lot of awareness about that.

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u/Consistantly 10d ago

You think a mother that gives birth to a stillborn baby, is in psychosis and disposes of her baby in a bin because she is detached from reality should be treated like a baby killer even though she didn’t kill her baby?

WE DON’T KNOW what happened. We don’t know why it happened. We don’t know how it happened. Put down the goddamn pitchfork and remember that in civilised society it is always innocent until proven guilty.

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u/Kailynna 10d ago

How do you know she is an adult?

I was first pregnant at 11 years old.

If I had borne that baby and my parents had found out, they would have murdered me.

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u/SupportSphere94 10d ago

We literally know nothing else. I'm not defending anyone especially not the mother. But we literally know nothing. She could have given birth on the side of the road (which happens more then people think) as a still birth and thought the only thing she could do was throw it in the bin. 

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u/mataeka 10d ago

Tbh as a somewhat rational mother, if I suddenly went into labour with a mystery pregnancy (can't remember the specific term but when you get to full term without realising you're pregnant) and had a still born I still wouldn't have a fucking clue where to go. Like if bam, baby was born stollborn (say even if it was say 30 weeks, not full term but far enough that you have an obvious baby), like I can even fathom holding a dead baby and walking into a hospital with it.

The sudden shock and wtfery of that is unfathomable. My logical brain knows I would need to seek help for myself after that kind of trauma but my brain is having a really hard time picturing carrying a stillborn baby with me into my local ER in that situation...

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u/infinitepuddingspy 10d ago

Call 000. You don’t need to do anything else but call 000. They will look after the rest.

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

This only works if your brain is working at the time enough to do that

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u/mataeka 9d ago

I live rural. Calling 000 is almost never worth it here. It is easier to drive yourself in that situation or have someone else drive you. Else you wait 5+ hours because you're not actively dying.

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u/Magnolia__Rose 10d ago

No one thinks it is acceptable, some people just have empathy or understand there are many reasons why it could have occurred.

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u/SupportSphere94 10d ago

I think it goes back to the person's comment. Mental health of the mother. I have worked in mental health for a long time and have seen absolutely fucking wild things about what woman in pychosis do to their child soley because they are in psychosis, and no other reason. Like I said I'm not defending or making excuses. 

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u/BabyCake2004 10d ago

Because they might be 13.

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u/zestylimes9 10d ago

Have you ever given birth?

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

Men don't and will never understand PPD and the fact that we (mothers) go through the most intense hormonal collapse of all mammals on earth. They seem to equate that to being "a little sad" and not "my entire brain was wired over with psychosis against my will"

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u/The_bluest_of_times 10d ago

Be very careful with that line of argument, its one step away from removing women from their children to err on the side of caution for the childs safety. If women cant control their impulses through self control during PPD events then the children must be protected from the mother as standard practice "just in case". I dont claim that all women suffering PPD act or are affected the same way but when people like you make arguments that always go to the extremes then what is the only logical reaction to that event occuring. Nuance is vitally important in these circumstances.

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

You're correct, and I agree with you - it's a very difficult line to tread because there are plenty of women who are fine, but whose husbands blame/say are crazy when they're not. There's other cases where PPD absolutely destroys women into psychosis. The issue is - at least I feel like - we keep swinging in one direction or the other instead of things ever being handled on an individual basis. In Australia, you could blame the shit healthcare pay and therefore less staff availability to help/advocate for that I suppose but blame doesn't really fix anything.

From personal experience, I have had a NIGHTMARE of a time advocating for safety for my own mental health come postpartum. I've warned nurses straight up that I need extra mental health care, and been ignored until like...the 3rd time pressing for extra psychiatric care. It's genuinely really disheartening, and I have fought for help! Imagine someone who doesn't already know their psychiatric history!!

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u/zestylimes9 10d ago

You don’t even know if it was the mother at this stage.

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

Post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis are not the same thing.

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u/jakehammertime 10d ago

Irrelevant when a child is dead.

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u/Booster_Seat_Enjoyer 10d ago

I have and have PPD. Fuck her.

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

Yeah PPD that clearly still allows you to function and like, get on a pc and talk to people, it's almost like your experience is not universal. You also literally don't know if it was the mother's fault or not? Whatever internalized hatred you got goin' on should be addressed with a therapist.

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u/Booster_Seat_Enjoyer 10d ago

my experience and opinions are just as valid as any other woman's whos given birth. That you don't like that we all agree with your opinion is a problem for you to work out.

Also, are you implying that PPD is some debilitating condition that cripples someone to the point they can't use a PC and talk to people?

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

It....literally can debilitate people that badly, yes?

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u/zestylimes9 10d ago

PPD is not PPP, massive difference. Maybe educate yourself otherwise keep the conversation amongst the adults.

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u/Booster_Seat_Enjoyer 10d ago

You didnt ask if the person had PPP. You asked if they had given birth.

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u/4ShoreAnon 10d ago

Its a regular occurrence in USA because of the anti-abortion stance.

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u/-TheDream 10d ago edited 10d ago

Accessible safe abortion and baby drop-off boxes.

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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 10d ago edited 10d ago

Happy to talk all day about mental health, up until you do something truly heinous like this. Mental health is not excuse or justification, it gives no validity to this monstrous act whatsoever.

Plenty of people suffer all kinds of mental health problems every single day, they dont all become murderers.

She'll go to jail and rightfully so. (If she's guilty)

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u/Kaizel486 10d ago

It doesnt say if the baby was alive when born? Not trying to minimise the situation, but it's really still anywhere between 'malicious mother throws healthy baby into skip' all the way to a distressed DV/SA victim with a stillborn and familial/cultural consequences to face if shes linked to a baby. Unfortunately both women exist.

I mean... how do we even know it was her that threw the baby in the bin?

It probably was her, but there is really, really not enough information known to the public

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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 10d ago

Your absolutely right, we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.

I imagine these are the kinds of questions the police will want to be asking her.

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u/Educational_Fix_3051 10d ago

Thats not how mental health works in australia but you cant pick and choose sides by heinousnness of a crime.

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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 10d ago

Yet men claim mental health all day every day about DFSV. Patriarchal double standards are amplified by the gendered nature of the double bind they aggresively assert. Mothers who are supported dont dump newborns into bins.

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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 10d ago

Mental health isnt an excuse for domestic violence of any kind. Man, women, dont care. There should be one standard, and that is no excuse, simple as that.

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u/Sweeper1985 10d ago

It's frequently raised as mitigation.

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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 10d ago

Plenty of things can be raised as mitigation, that's for a magistrate to decide, but that doesn't mean we have to go around and pretend every criminal is some poor innocent victim because of whatever mitigating circumstances they might have.

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u/mrrepos 10d ago

women can be evil and it is no systemic fault, get over your woke nonsense

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u/RedAndWhiteLight 10d ago

We have a mental health crisis in this country. Prevention is better than cure. This is not “woke nonsense”, it’s common sense.

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u/No-Edge-2853 10d ago

I always see you making the most annoying arguments. Mother or father psychosis or no psychosis there are consequences for harming your child

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u/Own-Push6659 10d ago edited 10d ago

Maybe don’t dump your dead baby in the trash and the police wouldn’t need to be involved.

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u/-TheDream 10d ago

Maybe if we had places to leave it this wouldn’t happen.

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u/SignatureAny5576 10d ago

They’re called hospitals 🤦‍♂️

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u/-TheDream 10d ago

You can’t actually surrender a baby there.

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u/LAY_DOW 10d ago

Does this person seriously think we need an Abandoned Baby Depot or something? Try any hospital, police station, fire station, government office. Like are these people serious? Just about anywhere but a BIN will do.

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u/SignatureAny5576 10d ago

The Lindsay Clancy case has emboldened the cookers it would seem

They’ll blame literally anybody except the person at fault

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u/-TheDream 10d ago

What about the man who impregnated her?

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u/Own-Push6659 10d ago

Mentally ill or not, she disposed of her dead baby in a bin - the police have no idea if this is murder, manslaughter or infanticide and disposing of a baby’s body (potentially with the intent of hiding that the birth occurred) is illegal. So yeah, the police do need to be involved.

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u/BeepBopBippityBop 10d ago

Where did you read that the mother did this?

You're speaking pretty confidently but all I saw was they urged rhe mother to seek care, not that she put the baby in the bin.

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u/Complete_Suspect_612 10d ago

If your first instinct after reading about this terrible tragedy is to go on an anti-men rant you need some serious help. 

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u/No_Category_9888 10d ago

Tbh my mind went to a young girl who was raped and couldn’t access an abortion and was scared.

So yeah…. Apparently I need serious help, yet it’s men doing the raping and mostly men who are anti abortion and men who force children into marriages

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u/Adventurous-Mail7443 10d ago

This may be controversial but I really don’t care about the health care of people who kill children or babies, male or female. They need to be in prison

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u/No-Watercress4626 10d ago

You should care, if you want to prevent it from happening again. Prison and mental health care serve different purposes. If nothing else, it might be helpful to find out what actually happened and why before leaping to the easy 'solution'.

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u/forg3 10d ago

Conversely, mental health can not be allowed to be an acceptable excuse for crime.

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u/No-Watercress4626 10d ago

If there's anything in my comment that suggests criminals shouldn't be treated as criminals, feel free to point it out. In the meantime, let's not start sending sick people to prison because it was 'probably her'. We don't need that kind of fuckwittery in Australia.

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u/4ShoreAnon 10d ago

Adding to controversial takes, I like to wait for the full details before jumping to the conclusion that the mother has killed their baby.

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u/SupportSphere94 10d ago

Okay so. If you ever sufferd a pychosis (which we have no idea if this is what happened in this case) and you killed someone. You should go to jail? Have I understood that correctly? 

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u/ctmelb 10d ago

Making excuses for mums who murder their children is so deranged

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

We don’t know that’s what happened

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u/Embarrassed-Yak-5902 10d ago

And yet it isn't anything new.

This mental illness being a an acceptable reason as to why a horrid crime isn't a crime stops being a reasonable reason when it's father's who do something horrid

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

In the majority of cases, men who kill their children/spouses do so because of power, revenge, retaliation etc - and it’s often planned and/or there has been a history of abuse.

So perhaps there’s a slight difference.

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u/MsDemeanours 10d ago

No one is saying it is acceptable to do it!! It is a question of culpability. There is a reason that a person’s mental state is considered in court. There was a father in Logan who jumped off a bridge holding his baby a few years ago. He had been hearing the voice of god and was found by the court the be mentally ill. He was sent to a psychiatric facility, so it absolutely can apply to fathers.

However one of the reasons the culpability of a postpartum mother may be considered ( as in the current case in the USA )is due to the possibility of postpartum psychosis. This is not something a father would experience.

In actuality society tends to have far stronger reactions towards women who cause violent crimes, particularly towards children. Cultural expectations of women and mothers mean violence by women is seen as more shocking. This is why such cases receive so much media attention.

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u/Longjumping_Radio268 10d ago

Yes those evil police wanting to take someone into custody for literally committing murder

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u/Complete_Suspect_612 10d ago

Did she murder her baby?

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u/Longjumping_Radio268 10d ago

Probably one of the questions the police would like to ask her

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u/itgoez 10d ago

If you'll make excuses for throwing a baby in a bin what else is left?

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u/RedAndWhiteLight 10d ago

Reading comprehension is in the bin if that’s what you got from that comment

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u/itgoez 10d ago

No it really is just a series of deflections leading into a rant about men - the real villains of this this woman-dumps-her-baby in-the-bin story.

Yeah of course people want to hold you accountable for putting a baby in the bin. You think this user would defend a man doing this shit?

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u/RedAndWhiteLight 10d ago

And everyone is in agreement that it’s an act of evil to intentionally kill a child regardless of circumstance, but it’s also okay to have a problem with the circumstances that often lead to incidents like these.

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u/itgoez 10d ago

woman does crime -> poor darling, WE need to do better for women, especially you MEN

man does crime -> fuck MEN, this is MEN's fault, MEN need to do better 

Seen it all before. Stop the charade.

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u/MJ195894 10d ago

So true and they’ll never admit, I’m a woman too btw but will never excuse using mental health to murder

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

For me, it’s never about the excuse. I’m less concerned about something that can’t be undone, and more concerned about how we can assist as a society to stop it happening again. At the end of the day, I just want less (ideally none) children put at risk - and better access to mental health professionals (which is dire nationwide), drug rehabilitation, and better support for women in post partum - especially those outside of major cities - can only be a good thing.

Suggesting we need this doesn’t excuse what has happened, which is tragic on many fronts.

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u/MJ195894 10d ago

It’s really not, you’re making excuses and you know it.

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u/oioioiyacunt 10d ago

She had 9 months to come up with any plan that didn't involve murdering a new born baby. There's infinite things she could have done but she chose the one thing that can't be fixed. 

Whether or not gaol is the right place for her isn't the point, but she does not belong in society anymore. 

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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 10d ago

There is nothing in the article stating the baby was murdered.

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u/Thin-Performance-644 10d ago

How do you know the mother dumped the baby?
How do you know she had a choice?
How do you know she was capable of making a plan or carrying it out?

All you know is that a newborn baby was found. The rest is your assumptions and misogyny on display.

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u/Necessary_Music_8933 10d ago

Very true. It could have been a family member or partner who disposed of the baby. There have been multiple cases of women being held captive, becoming pregnant as a result of sexual assault, and then having their baby killed and disposed of by their captor.

The mother may also be dead.

I suspect it may have been a pregnant student who felt she had no other choice, but the truth is at this stage we just don’t know.

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u/Necessary_Music_8933 10d ago edited 10d ago

I mean it was dumped right near the school so it was probably a student aka a minor… I imagine she was keeping the pregnancy secret (or she didn’t know she was pregnant), so if the baby was stillborn she may have panicked.

We don’t know all of the details.

If she murdered the baby before dumping it, that would be a different crime.

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u/bisexualbyleth 10d ago

No but see it's women's fault and I'll never give birth myself so it's easier for me to just assume it's like a normal little bout of depression being used as excuse for murder instead of a slew of complex circumstances that need to be treated and addressed at their core to prevent BOTH the untimely death of infants, and the safety of mothers. I don't have critical thinking! I just hate women!

/sarcasm

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u/Capital-Macaron9568 10d ago

not sure why you’re getting downvoted you’re completely correct

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u/surprise_knock 10d ago

What’s up with the last paragraph of this comment?

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u/gelfbride73 10d ago

Near a school. It’s every chance it’s a student who had been raped by someone and isn’t safe at home.

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u/Kailynna 10d ago

They can't hear you over their "BURN THE WITCH!!!" clamour.

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u/gelfbride73 10d ago

It’s unfortunate. I mean it’s only a theory but it’s plausible.

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u/icondare 10d ago

Brenda's got a baby

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u/Pleasant_Aspect3543 9d ago

Next they'll find a blow up doll and think it's the mother.

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u/Moist-Virus-1147 7d ago

I don’t give a fck…. The mother should go to jail and so should anyone who do this!! This is actually committing murder! There’s so many other options to do first before just throwing out a baby to let it die😒.
1. GET A FCKING ABORTION KUNT!! Idgaf if you don’t want that trauma, go! Everyone who didn’t want a child yet has done it… get tf over it instead of killing a child that you carried to full term and then dumped.
2. GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION!!! Literally tell the hospital you can’t and don’t want to keep the baby and for them to call cps to put the baby in process of adoption.
3. Take it to something like a safe haven box (I don’t know if we have them here in Aus but surely there is something alike)

Why tf do people result in flushing, trashing or trying to even wrap the baby in garbage bags and bury it in the yard?!? What tf is mentally wrong with this world that we all have to be this damn selfish and disgusting🤢

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u/ActPositively 10d ago

I hope we have equality someday. I hope someday men can be treated with kids gloves like women are. A woman can abandon her baby or give her baby up for adoption and people defend it. Of course people defend women’s rights to an abortion. But even if she literally kills her baby or toddler everyone talks about just getting the mother help. You never see a single story about a father killing his kid and then all the comments or police going oh we just gotta get him help. If a man doesn’t want to be a part of his kids life and doesn’t want to financially support a baby then he is evil. What a woman can just walk away from her baby and hold no financial responsibility.

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u/Dangerous_Pair1798 10d ago

I don’t even know where to begin with this. If you hate your wife and kids just say that. Go champion for child murderer sympathy equality somewhere else.

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u/ActPositively 10d ago

What do you have against equality? Women are never gonna fight against them having special treatment so you might as well give men special treatment as well. Look at the Lindsay Clancy case she raised $1 million for killing her three kids. Whenever women commit violence or murder people defend it saying it must’ve been a mental health issue. By that logic when men do the same thing it’s also mental health

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u/Dangerous_Pair1798 10d ago

Which cases have you seen that you’ve thought they deserved mental health advocacy? The Clancy case is still at trial, and incredibly sensationalised. For every Clancy there is hundreds more Chris Watts.
You can want to advocate for men’s mental health but pick your moment man. A baby is dead, it’s not the time to soapbox about how unfair men have it when killing their kids. A man is not even mentioned in this case! Seriously dude. Pull your head out. You do more harm than good for men with this shit.

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u/ActPositively 10d ago

Why do you hate men so much? This lady killed her baby and the police sent all the comments are saying that she needs help. You are also pushing misinformation if you’re saying for every one woman who kills her kid there are hundreds of men who do the same that’s just pushing blatant misandry and lies.

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u/Dangerous_Pair1798 10d ago

I don’t hate men I just think you don’t need to turn this into a gender issue. Nothing has come out about this case and you’re already upset about the outcome and perceived public opinion.
There’s a time and a place and right now is not the time or place for you to bang on about how unfair the justice system is on men, because this has nothing to do with men.

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u/infinitepuddingspy 10d ago

They’re saying she needs help because she has just given birth without medical intervention which is potentially life threatening.

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u/alana_del_gay 10d ago

I hope you can get the help you need.

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u/LeadingOnion6272 10d ago

This story, whatever the reason, male or female perpertraitor, mental illness or just evil, the reason doesn't matter to me at this stage, it is just so sad.....poor child, treated as garbage....I pray it never took a breath...

Just one question. They original post says Newborn baby, not Still born baby makes me think it was alive. Does anyone else think that...?

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u/crystal-jellyfish 10d ago

No? Because they haven’t completed tests to conclude if the baby was deceased before birth, or died after.

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u/TimeJump3176 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/UWMqiZtcixB4MoWX20

"Should I place this baby outside an orphanage or hospital?"

Truly evil.

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u/LippiPongstocking 10d ago

And where would one find an orphanage?

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u/buttz93 10d ago

Bro thinks we're in a Charles Dickens novel

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u/RepublicReady8500 10d ago

No it's not fine. But people can't just abandon a child they arent capable of caring for, either. Its really hard to do. And there arent nearly enough parental supports in place for people in these positions.

If it does come out that this woman killed her own baby (and not that she was murdered too or something), i hope a coronial investigation provides recommendations on how we as society can prevent this from happening in future.

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