What the fuck
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Sounds pretty awful, but remember that prosecutors don't have ESP. So "prosecutors claim she didn't want to jeopardize her career" is not the same as "she didn't want to jeopardize her career".
It's not like she wrote in her diary "Today I killed my newborn because I thought it would interfere with work."
Yea I don't think many are as focused on the motivation part as much as the lady defenestrating a fuckin baby.
Lots of heartless people in the comments who didn't read her side of this. Honestly, I sympathize with her almost entirely.
She didn't know she was pregnant. This is something that happens to women of her size sometimes. Not all pregnancies have the telltale symptoms. Sometimes you learn about your pregnancy as you're going into labor.
It's rare, but it absolutely happens.
She went from having a normal evening, to giving a natural birth alone in her apartment in a matter of about 20 minutes. She went from thinking she was having cramps to holding her newborn baby.
Within 10 minutes the baby had been dropped out of a window.
The amount of trauma this woman experienced, combined with the extreme and often immediate postpartum mental health issues, including psychosis, absolutely led to her making a completely irrational and tragic decision. I find it hard to swallow that she deserves punishment as if this were a long thought out plan to kill a child. This was a poorly handled crisis handled by a traumatized woman in a fugue state. She was not in a sound state of mind.
She doesn't deserve prison, she deserves compassion for what she's suffered and treatment for her mental ailments.
That they interrogated her and used her panic over her career against her as if she schemed to kill a child to further her career is honestly a disgusting angle to try to punish this woman. They opportunistically grilled a woman experiencing trauma so that they could throw the book at her.
She murdered a baby. She needs rehabilitation, help, sure, but it doesn't get much worse than baby killing, imo.
She was convicted of manslaughter, not murder. Even the courts that I am criticizing aren't going as far as you.
Regardless, whatever emotional response you have to the death of the baby shouldn't matter in comparison to the circumstances and motives leading to it.
Your zero-tolerance for "baby killing" is what lands women in prison for miscarriages.
Terrible attempt at a straw man at the end there, 2/10.