Do you think the 14 year old girl who flushed her baby down a toilet should be jailed or be treated differentl

Question

because of her age.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_re_us/bathroom_baby

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Answer 1

If she get jailed, the father of the baby should get jailed as well. You put all the responsibility on the women, the men have their part too in making babies not only the fun.

Answer 2

how could u not know your pregnant.  she had to of known she was why the baggy clothing???  She knew what she was doing for that reason alone she should take full responsibility for her actions.  So what just because shes a teen it's ok to get away with murder I don't think so murder is murder.

Answer 3

unbelievable, some teenager these days don't take responsibilities for anything they do....

i guess she should be jailed, but if you wait ten year from now, she'd act differently, she'd be more mature and responsible and probaly raise the child

Answer 4

AH !

Teens ,s*x ,stupidity, responsibilities, awareness, education, family ,guilt and now !murder. They all fallow a path that can take on 4 ways, a natural miscarriage, an abortion that in some parts is considered murder , and adoption the decision that gives a life a chance to live and perhaps be someone of importance in society some day!

Unfortunately these girls took the wrong way and they are now faced with remorse for the rest of their lives , and that is a terrible weight to carry around .

I don't believe that they should get the death penalty , in my opinion they should be allowed to live with their action committed for as long that they live .

My question to you all is why did they come to this act on the first place? who put them against a wall and they saw this action is the only way out ? Or were they twisted from the very beginning?

They are the only one that can answer this questions as outsiders we can only judge them. If they only had their conscience telling them to stop and think !

Answer 5

She deserves to go to jail for LIFE, she is an evil, sick, sadistic human being and a murderer.  Seriously, there is NO HOPE for someone this evil to ever become a productive member of society and she should never be allowed to have another child, EVER.  If she is allowed to live, which I'm not sure she should be, she should be sterilized immediately.  Or maybe we should kill her by drowning her in a toilet.

Oh and for anyone who says "help her", if you had to watch her kill that innocent little baby, do you think you'd still feel the same way?  Really, stop trying to be an idealistic do-gooder, it is no good deed to preserve the life of someone who purposely murders a baby.  And if she's old enough to open her legs up and do the deed, she shouldn't be able to get away with this for being a child.  She is not a child.  

All babies are gifts from God and we should love them all and protect them all, if she doesn't get the death penalty or at least life in prison, we are telling all the other irresponsible, sadistic little b!t(#es like her out there that it's okay to kill a baby.

Answer 6

She should stay in a mental institute until she is 18 and then life in Jail.

Murder is murder, no matter how young you are. Which should have been the case with the Jamie Bulger killers.

Answer 7

For christs sake she is a 14 year old child who didnt have anyone who she trusted enough with the fact that she was pregnant.  She gave birth alone and didnt know what to do.  Of course she should be treated differently, she was far too young to be having s*x and got caught out. She isnt a 26 year old who can deal with falling pregnant.  

What should be dealt with is why so many young girls are having s*x and not protecting themselves.  s*x education is really important as is teaching young girls about self respect which is obviously lacking if they have sleeping about at that age and not using any protection.

Answer 8

Depends, Did she pull down her pants on her on, or was she forced to do so.  If she was raped and became pregnant, then she should be helped in all ways possible.  But if she, was like so many other teenagers today, who are 12 and think they are 30, then she deserves to rot in jail.  To many times today young girl get out and act like they are grown-up, then when they get in trouble they go crying like babies and we as a whole set back and feel for them.  If they can do the crime, they can do the time.

Answer 9

Removing my emotions from this disgusting situation and going on the facts.  This 14 year old committed murder.  Her punishment should not differ just because of her age.  I am sorry but there are other options that she had to choose from, killing her child is NOT one of them!  This is just another sad example of why parents need to talk to their kids about s*x and its consequences!

Answer 10

I agree with don lady pipkin. This is a 14 year old kid were talking about.

Answer 11

She need help and to go straight to JAIL!!!!she wasn't to young to have s*x was she she should be treated the same way as other people who kills innocent people!

Answer 12

1) Delivering a stillborn baby means that the baby was already dead before labor began.  The baby wasn't killed; the mother's body forced a miscarriage because the fetus died.  The only possible similarity between these two cases is the age of the mothers and delivery in a bathroom.  

2) Texas carries the death penalty for murder of a newborn, which is what the girl who tried to flush her baby did.  They won't give her the death penalty because of her age, but they will still charge her with capital murder because of some degree of premeditation.  She WILL be jailed.

Answer 13

it depends on her circumstances, none of us can judge what happens. she may have felt she had to kill her baby as she was scared of what may happen to her, in this case she should go straight to a hospital for intense theropy before being departed to hospital, if she has a supported family and they could have got through this then her backside should go to jail and have theropy there.

its sad how no one realised she was pregnant, she was 14 years old she must have been scared and she may not have shown alot but there must have been something!!

Where were her parents? i have a 16 year old (my niece who lives with me full time) and i know if there's changes to her body or her mind! people let this kid down and because of that... she killed a baby which makes her a horrible  person... but what about others. Her family and friends failed her.

just because im putting another edge to it doesnt mean i dont agree she should go to jail. what she did was wrong and she was old enough to know it was wrong, no matter what!

Answer 14

I'm torn on this one.

She could of had temporary insanity because she went through the painful process of giving birth alone and then she panicked once the baby started to cry. Especially if she was afraid her parents might abuse her if they found out.  But it still is murder and at 14 she knows right from wrong.

I don't know about Texas s*x ed, but where i'm from, we were taught about safe places you could drop off a baby. (along with safe s*x). She'd have to be very naive not to have researched what to do with the baby once she found out she was pregnant.

I think she should be jailed, because it seems like she didn't think through what she was doing and she is at such a young age.  Also, she'll have to live with the knowledge of what she did and the baby's cry might haunt her for the rest of her life.

Answer 15

If she is too young to be charged then that means the parents have to be held responsible because they taught this girl that a baby is nothing more than a disposable item! But charges have to be applied to one of these parties, or people should stay away from Texas and they should also forbid Texans from traveling to any other place in America! Obviously there are some twisted people in that place! And why haven't they arrested the father and his parents as well?

Answer 16

Jailing a 14-year-old? Are you kidding? She needs counselling and better parenting.

Answer 17

this is incredibley sad but she is still a child she may have a womans body but her mind is not mature enough, obviously or she would have handled it differently.

I do not think jail is the answer but then america loves putting children in jail for life for things such as this where helping them is more necessary

Answer 18

Murder is murder.  The question is, how  should she be punished.  She should not be treated differently.  She needs to be held accountable for her actions.  Jail is not the answer for her though.

Edit: He is correct, she is far too young to go to jail.  She made the decision of a child because she is a child.  Later in life when she comes to realise what she has done, she will regret it very much.  When we are young we look for an easy solution.  She needs to be accountable and needs counseling.

Answer 19

I think she should be jailed. Even though she's only 14, she had to have known what she was doing was wrong.