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teen tried to flush newborn down toilet
Published Jun. 30, 2008
Yesterday's blog (by Sessy) got me thinking. So I wanted to find out more.
(AP) A 14-year-old girl gave birth in a restroom at her junior high, and the baby boy cried once before she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing him, officials said Thursday.
An autopsy confirmed the baby was alive when born Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, near Houston. The boy was probably full term and cried before the mother, an eighth-grader, tried to flush him, said police Lt. Eric Freed.
The mother was taken to a hospital. People who knew her at school said she wore baggy clothing, and nobody suspected she was pregnant, The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday.
School officials learned of her pregnancy when another student who was in the restroom while the eighth-grader was in labor went to ask the school nurse for help, said Kathy Clausen, spokeswoman for Baytown's Goose Creek school district.
The nurse and an assistant principal ran to the bathroom, discovered the girl had given birth and called 911.
Authorities have not announced what charges the girl will face, if any. Killing an infant is a capital crime in Texas, but 14-year-olds are too young to be eligible for the death penalty, said Geoffrey Corn, an assistant professor at South Texas College of Law.
The infant died just three days after another 14-year-old girl delivered a stillborn fetus in the bathroom of an airplane on her way back to Houston from a middle-school field trip.
Baytown is about 25 miles east of Houston.
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It looks like to me that you are making EXCUSES FOR MURDER.
Where do you see a personal attack? And where/when have you seen me forming a lynch mob?
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July 1, 2008 8:33 a.m.
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July 1, 2008 8:22 a.m.
Stepha, I honestly don't know what to say to you. 14 is old enough to know right from wrong, but yet still a child. But in this case a murdering child. It seems to me that it is very hard for you to accept the fact that this girl just could have been a regular teenager that started her sex life early. This may be because you seem to think that whatever happened to you has happened to everyone else.
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June 30, 2008 2:31 p.m.
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June 30, 2008 2:00 p.m.
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June 30, 2008 1:20 p.m.
I don't think I said anything bad should happen to the girl. I do agree she needs help. I don't know the whole story about how she became pregnant or WHY she killed her baby. I do know (according to the story) she was at school when she had the baby. No one knew she was pregnant. She could have just left the baby there.
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June 30, 2008 1:18 p.m.
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June 30, 2008 12:33 p.m.
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June 30, 2008 12:29 p.m.
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June 30, 2008 12:20 p.m.
this is just sick. i dont care how old she was. my 3 year old daughter knows enough not to kill other living things, how is it that a 14 year old finds it logical or acceptable to flush a baby down a toilet?
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June 30, 2008 11:13 a.m.
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