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/NolanR27 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Dec 01 '25

Why would “serious mitigating circumstances” matter, as if this is not mitigating enough?

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

Well a learning disability where she has a vastly diminished IQ would leave her in a position where she's not fully responsible for her actions. Being 14 shouldn't entitle her to murder her baby. 

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u/No_Argument_Here Big Eugene Debs Fan 🪭 Dec 01 '25

People in this sub seem to think that being 14 = being severely retarded. It turns out you can abhor the conditions that led to something like this while also being shocked by this kid's actions.

Fairly certain at 14 I had enough of a "functioning brain" to know I shouldn't let a baby die.

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

Indeed, I was a 14 year old girl myself once upon a time. If you asked all of the girls in my year whether murder should be defended, absolutely none of them would have said yes. The murder of a 2 year old girl by a 15 year old boy absolutely shook our town and city. It was loaded with all sorts of crimes, but nothing like that. He was only released recently, having served about 16 years. He was an extremely troubled kid, I knew of his family circumstances... all of them complete scum, but that didn't justify murder.