Unwanted children

 

Looking like a child, but old enough to give birth: Jakayla Ashanti Williams (18 years old) had a baby she didn't want. What's very tragic is that she knew she had one way out of the situation, i.e. to dump the newborn at the hospital. It's obvious that she knew this, but chose otherwise, as she told her family that the child was at Southeast Health Medical Center, but at that time she had let it die in a trash compactor. 

Baby killers have always been around, so what she did wasn't anything new, and that even makes it sadder: We should know that women giving birth may not have made a conscious choice, but only let things happen not to e.g. disappoint their family who knows of the pregnancy. Something which I think was what led to a former, infamous case:

So she wanted to go on with her life and not give up all the fun for the tough maternal obligations? Thinking of it, reading about it, etc. is hard to those who would never as much as consider something like it, no matter what. Most of us have been brought up to believe in - and trust - the old myth of the mother who will toil with three jobs or even more to support her family and even risk her own life to save her children, but as we know, myths are MYTHs which is something that may be far from the truth. 

Chris Watts with his family, two daughters and his pregnant wife, which he murdered to be free, also to be with a new girlfriend. Other men have murdered their pregnant wives or girlfriends as they have had no intentions of establishing a commitment, either as a father, a husband or by accepting to have to pay the costly child support of having children out of wedlock. In this case the man stalled at the thought of having a third child which he hadn't wanted in the first place ....

Everyone who hears about the Casey Anthony case has an opinion about her acquittal of the more than suspicious death of her daughter, Caylee. It's my impression that most people don't support this verdict, and her image of a lying, even scheming woman who loved her party life, but not her obligations of motherhood. She appears to be an extremely cold hearted and overtly superficial woman and that makes people take for granted that she is guilty of murder. Well, I for one, was very surprised that she was acquitted, but the evidence was not enough to another verdict. Thinking about it I also come to ponder one fact: She was sort of forced into NOT having an abortion by her mother. This woman, who was the one who called the cops on her daughter, even seemed happy to become a granny of the child of the unmarried Casey.

If Casey Anthony told her mother that she chose her hanging out with friends and lovers, her freedom over the child she didn't want then that's a message that should have stopped all attempts of forcing her into going through with the pregnancy. We may find Casey superficial, a low life with money, and in all ways awful, but still, she has a right to make a choice. If she was forced into giving birth that was very unfortunate as it cost the life of her lovely daughter.

 

https://www.crimeonline.com/2023/08/25/teen-mom-dumps-newborn-in-trash-compactor/

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