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The newborn left in the toilet

posted 12 years ago by pugsonthemoon
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I've never really watched his show before, but I caught about 3 or 4 episodes last night. One of them was the episode with the abandoned preemie. This is totally random, but I couldn't stop thinking about the child's birth mother. If she were to see this episode on TV or something and know that she was the mother. I just wonder how she would react to knowing that the child she abandoned was part of a loving family and doing so well.

The whole idea of abandoning a baby in a toilet just weirds me out and I wonder what would compel someone to do that. I know that people abandoning their children is a fact of life, it happens, but how and where she left it seems unusual.

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[–] Maxmacrubymimi 12 years ago

I was disturbed by that episode.

[–] mcolby-125-523976 11 years ago

What do you mean you can't stop thinking about the mother seeing it and knowing her child is adopted and loved? Opposed to not dead since sshe just left her in a toilet to die? And if I remember correctly that child also has lifelong medical problems from being left in the toilet. I have no sympathy for that mother at all. She should be in jail for attempted murder.

[–] susanemccool 11 years ago

Are there really any states left that don't allow a mother to bring her newborn to a hospital, fire station, etc., no ID needed, no questions asked, so as to prevent just such incidents?! I mean, supposing she lived in a state with mo such law - at least at the time - the woman could have run in with the baby, gone up to a nurse and yelled "Please help! I just found this baby in the middle of the road/in a trash can/on
a bench outside!" then said " I'll be right back, I left my car running!" or something, and run off.

If she was just criminally careless, I hope she never sees or hears of the ultimate outcome, and spends her life dealing with guilt as she imagines the worst. *So* many other options were available!

[–] DCompton86 11 years ago

Almost every state (if not all) have Safe Haven laws for this reason. All the mother needed to do was leave the child at the hospital and it would have been taken care of, no questions asked. The mother endangered the child's life by doing what she did...I can only hope her life is hell now.

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