How sad is it when a woman gives birth to a baby on meth?

Question

It makes me so mad. A woman here in PX just gave birth to a baby in a hotel room...both were full of meth. And the cops are talking about "possible" charges!

Send her to jail, put the kid in an adoptive home and NEVER tell the kid that they were adopted so the poor kid doesn't have to know what really happened on his/her birthday. I am so tired of people having pity for people who do this stuff to their kids. You know you're pregnant, so stop the drugs.

I have no problem with druggies as long as they're not hurting other people (say like the hippies and their weed) but if you're pregnant you are *definately* hurting someone else! People with kids just shouldn't do drugs...it's common sense, right?

What do you guys think the sentence for this gal should be? Jail just doesn't seem like it's enough, considering the serious brain damage that meth does

Answer 1

I couldn't even fathom doing anything remotely close to that while being pregnant. That is way sad.

Answer 2

I had a brother that was born prematurely due to drug use. He has a learning disability and I have never forgiven my mother to this day. She spent most of my childhood in prison and I never took pity. Although prison doesn't seem like enough, it's all that they will do.

Answer 3

I saw this on the news, too. Very sad. Today is my due date for the baby I lost in March. Hard to see woman take their babies for granted and not protect them. I'd love to have her baby.

Answer 4

THAT IS THE ******* SADDEST THING I'VE EVER  HEARD!!!!

Answer 5

well in most cases if this is the first time she has done something as this then no charges will be given. In most cases the child has to stay in the hospital until they are able to go home. The mother or parents have weekly or montly visits from CPS. They have to get drug tested every week, and take classes couple of days per week. Sometimes the parent is allowed to take their child home or if that is not the case the parent has to do some things in order to take the child home so child is placed in a family members care until the parent can take care of he child for themselves.

Answer 6

There are few things in the world that irk me as much as this...

Answer 7

i agree with you wholeheartedly. I lost a baby in October but found out that it had downs. I am very young so the diagnosis was such a shock but I had a crack head cousin that had 5 perfectly healthy girls and the whole time I kept asking why me? I had a hard time believing there was  a god when something like that could happen. I have gotten better but I still don't understand how people could do this and when my cousin came to me and said she was sorry to hear about my loss I made sure to tell her to feel d**n lucky that she never had that happen to her.

Answer 8

I can't understand this for the life of me, when I was 22 weeks pregnant with my first, due to an irritable uterus I went into labour and was rushed to an out of town specialist women's hospital to stop the labour, when I was sitting outside for fresh air one day (few days after I got there) I saw this woman smoking and she went on to ask about me and my pg, when asked about her, turns out she just had her baby boy a week ago but was in hospital still as he was born with meth in his system, and OMG this so called mother had absoluetly no remorse whatsoever, not one tiny shred of evidence that she felt sorry for what she had done. I couldn't believe it. I was sooo angry by it, there I was fighting tooth and nail to stay pregnant and doing the right things by my baby, but there she was doping up, smoking, and she drinks etc too, like ARGH! I HATE women like that, they don't deserve to have children at all and should be sterilised, especially the one I met as apparently it wasn't the first time she said that baby was her 6th and all the others had the same troubles too? ok so where are children's services in her case? they were involved at that point but not before with the 5 others, soooo peed off.

I don't know what happened after that I was allowed to go home the next day (thankgod I couldn't stand being in the same place as her), but I believe they should get a jail sentence for causing such detrimental harm to their children when the pg it's totally up to the mother to do the right thing, so jail and have the child taken off her for good, and sterilisation if she repeats it.

Answer 9

I think they should lock her up for a long time and make her quit doing drugs cold turkey and never alow her to have kids again. Maybe then she will suffer like she made her baby suffer. My grandma's brother decided he was ganna go out and buy a hooker one night. She ended up pregnant and it was his baby. She was a drug addict, hooker, and she gave birth to my cousin on the bathroom floor at a bar. While drugged out of her mind. My uncle, being mentally handicapped, recieved soul custody of him. Now the life he lives is no better then he would've had with his mom. His house has no heat in the winter and my uncle keeps the only space heater in his room pointed on himself. Their bathtub is full of useless junk so the poor kid can't even take a bath. We've tried countless times to do something about this. The state has done nothing in 9 years. They feel bad because my uncle is mentally handicapped. Stupid people like this need locked up for a long time. Including the people who sit back and do nothing.