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  • I'm disappointed that she'll only get 11 years for that.

  • That is a truly horrible crime .. but I also feel sorry for the woman .What she did is inexcusably wrong , but what must be in her head , what really drove someone to such extremes .
    I don't think prison is the right thing for her .. Her mind will be her prison till the day she dies . Haunted constantly by it , trying to drown it out with drugs and alcohol.Prision by itself is a resort holiday compared to the guilt and self loathing .

    Hell is your own guilt , eating away at your mind till one day you can't ta
    • I believe in second chances, if she had panicked and smothered the baby I would probably be more open minded. But he was stabbed, and then had his face bashed in before he was thrown into a water filled quarry. The boy friend used to stand on her stomach when she was pregant. This isn't accidental, or a momentary lapse of judgement, or panicking.

      I believe that it's very possible to repent and recieve mercy. But, I also don't believe that you can truly repent without wanting to take responsibility for your p
      • She obviously told someone as it says in the story .. If you don't want something like this getting out , you tell no-one .. but the guilt eats you.
        Honestly I do believe she will suffer a living hell for the rest of her life .
        The only person that can release her from that is her .

        I was not meaning so much as she has perhaps made an innocent mistake .. more what made her do that . What are her parents like , how would they have reacted if she was pregnant and they had found out at that age..
        To go to such an
      • There was a guy in Aftonbladet last week who got out from psych care after 7 years for three murders
  • Why is she still alive?

    Both of them should be dead. Erased and forgotten. Buh bye.
  • She was 15 years old when she was pregnant and gave birth. When you're 15, you can't even begin to comprehend that anyone but you *exists*. Pledging your love to someone "forever" means until such time as you might be faced with making an uncomfortable choice because of them. And yes, while the things that she did to the baby were horrific, as a mother, it is very easy for me to understand how she could have been afraid enough of the consequences of having that baby so as to see *herself* as the victim, tha
    • You really have to wonder about her parents if they didn't notice that she was pregnant. (Or at the very least, the "miraculous" weight loss post delivery.)

      It is definitely a tragedy. Hopefully that soul will come around again for a deserving family.
    • Every time I hear one of these stories, it's hard for me to be angry at the scarcely post-pubescent parents. Killing an infant is surely an atrocious act, but why were they driven to do this? Why did they feel so alone? Why was there nobody who could help them? Why did they feel like they had no other option?

      I'm sure everybody has their own opinion on this matter, but I can't help but feel that we failed them. Every time a law is passed that parents must be notified of their children seeking birth cont
      • I don't have answers -- I think that it's important that I preface this comment with that qualifier, because I have no idea where I'm gonna go with this.

        There is a BIG problem when parents are so in denial about their children having sex that all they can do is threaten them with all the horrible things that will befall them if they get pregnant. And yeah, it's not great for kids to have kids -- but what that's really about is the shame that the parents will have to face from the community once it's know
        • I've thought about this a lot, and I don't know. I do think that prevention takes precedence over not wanting to seem to be giving permission. But I don't think that going so far as to hand out condoms to every single teen would get them all to use them. I don't think you can make them think about the consequences of sex until they happen.

          I do think that the resources for unwanted pregnancy should be made available before the need arises. Every teen should be aware of safe havens for newborns (where you
      • Which just goes to show how much we, as a country, have changed in the past 200 years. 200 years ago, it was damn near expected that the babies would start coming while still a teenager. Maybe amongst the social elites that might not have been as common, but amongst the commoners it was just the way life was. Now teenage pregenancy is seen as being the end of the world.
        *boggle*

        What happened?
        • I think this is largely a middle class problem. In the lower classes, teenaged pregnancy is rampant, but I don't think that you will see much infanticide out of them, because there's no shame in doing what every single one of your relatives has done. In many ways, this is a lot healthier than the puritan denial present in the middle class.
        • What happened?

          Women now have a life of their own to build. If you're expecting to grow up to be a housemaker, it doesn't matter if you get pregnant at 15 or 25. But if you're hoping to go to college and then build the start of a career, getting knocked up will definitely be a problem.

          Even in a stable family in their mid-twenties, unexpected [slashdot.org] pregnancies [slashdot.org] will be a big deal and will make it much more difficult to go to college or save any money.
        • 1. Folks at this age were married off by that point.
          2. Education through 18 enforced by the state didn't exist.

          I am sure if I give it a few more minutes I could come up with a whole horde of reasons. Apples and oranges is the best explaination to your comment.

          Currently a parent cannot, with out setting up the child for adoption, kick a child out of their protection until 16 now. Heck, we have laws that until a child is 18 they are limited in the number of hours they can work, so its unlikely a couple wher

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