A 13 year old girl in suburban Illinois has been taken into custody after it emerged she wrapped up her new born baby in a pair of bloody jeans and dumped the infant boy in the trash.
The girl whose identity is being kept hidden as she’s a minor, says she didn’t realise she was pregnant when she went into labor.
An autopsy revealed the baby to have been full term but only 4 pounds and 2 ounces. Newborns generally tend to weigh between six and eight pounds.
Ironically, Illinois prides itself on its Safe Haven laws which were promulgated through the efforts of the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation.
The laws allow pregnant mothers who do not want to keep their babies, the opportunity to anonymously leave such babies outside designated locations. These babies are then put up for adoption with no questions asked.
This baby’s death was thus seen as doubly unnecessary.
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