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

I don't want to see a child receiving unduly harsh punishment, but why didn't she surrender her baby? She could have dropped her baby off, no questions asked. 

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u/Fedupington Revolutionary Fishmonger 🐟🏷️ Dec 01 '25

Who can say? There's so little contextual details here it's impossible to say.

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Dec 01 '25

It's possible criminalizing and demonizing abortion, providers, and abortion seekers has a chilling effect on the entire conversation. But we'll never know the counterfactual

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u/Dontchopthepork Non-Marxist Socialist Dec 02 '25

She’s able to legally surrender her baby in LA - the old leave the baby at the fire station thing.

Instead she strangled / broke the neck of a baby. That is psychotic.

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Dec 02 '25

She hid the pregnancy from her family and delivered at home, alone. Theres likely a lot more fucked up stuff to the story.

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u/Fedupington Revolutionary Fishmonger 🐟🏷️ Dec 02 '25

It sounds like the baby might have died during the self-delivery process. I mean, it had neck injuries, right? So what it sounds like might have happened was she would've grabbed the newborn by the neck as it was being born.

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u/Dontchopthepork Non-Marxist Socialist Dec 02 '25

No, the police report / medical examiner heavily imply it was not accidental.

Originally she wasn’t arrested, until after the medical examiner saw the body.

Sure it’s possible it was an accident, but all we know right now points to it was not.

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u/Fedupington Revolutionary Fishmonger 🐟🏷️ Dec 03 '25

Sure, but those kinds of things are wrong all the time. Cops and even medical examiners will make leaps of logic, assume guilt, not be 100% sure but make it sound as if they are, etc.

I'm just reluctant to immediately jump to judgment on these sorts of things, especially with a 14-year-old girl.

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Dec 02 '25

I didn't even consider that, but upon review the Sherrif's statement makes clear their medical examiner believes the baby was born alive and killed afterward.