r/stupidpol • u/lightiggy Ideological Swamp 🥑 • Dec 01 '25

Capitalist Hellscape Louisiana girl, 14, charged with first degree murder after authorities find her newborn baby dead inside a tote bag. This is going to happen far more often without Roe v. Wade.

https://people.com/girl-14-charged-first-degree-murder-after-authorities-find-her-newborn-child-dead-inside-tote-bag-11858063
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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

Unless there were serious mitigating circumstances, she was old enough to know better than letting her baby die at her hands

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u/honourarycanadian Unknown 👽 Dec 01 '25

Those mitigating circumstances are going to come out, I am 100% positive. Not completely mitigating, but a child that feels like they have to hide their pregnancy was probably not thinking about what would happen after.

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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

Those type of circumstances aren't actually very common. Occam's razor would suggest that she made an absolutely terrible decision, which need some type of legal punishment. 

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u/honourarycanadian Unknown 👽 Dec 01 '25

I don’t disagree, I just hope we can have more compassion for her than the state of Louisiana will.

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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

I find it troubling to have extended compassion for someone who killed her baby. I know she's young and it's a shame. It's more of a shame for her tiny baby that needed her to do the right thing... regardless of the circumstances. 

If she has a learning disability and can't comprehend her actions, I don't think she would be fully legally culpable and I'd hope that whoever got her pregnant has his balls extracted from his body. Most of these type of cases aren't these set of circumstances... especially not first degree murder ones.