[Newsbot]

Title: What separates infanticide from murder charges?
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-04-02 13:42:17
Canadian

[wildrosegirl]

That's horrible.

I would like to see them adjust the sentences so that any crime against a child would be at least 2-3 times longer than the same crime against an adult.

[andyt]

Infanticide is basically a form of very late term abortion, since it allows women to get away with murder.

What this story doesn't mention is that this is the second baby this woman has killed or otherwise dealt with improperly. The first one happened a year ago and she wrapped it in a plastic bag and dumped it. This time no body has been found so far (they're scouring the landfill) but it's known that she again gave birth at home and then the baby vanished. Maybe she's trying to match the record of the woman in France who did the same thing 7 times and stashed the bodies in her house.

[Brenda]

So if infanticide is inapplicable to fathers, they say that when a father kills his newborn, it is murder. When a woman does it, it is not.

Now I know there are instances that the mother has a PPD, or PPP, and I can see that. BUT, further in the article, it is mentioned that women who do this, often are very religious, ignore their pregnancy and use this as, like Andy points out, a very late term abortion.

To me, when a baby can breathe on its own, it's life. So even this "very late term abortion" should be called murder.