thoughts...

A newspaper report caught my attention today. It’s the report of a 13-year-old girl who gave birth in the school toilet and dumped the newborn there. The police who commented on this said that initially he thought that it was just simply a case of her dumping the newborn. After that, police interviews with the girl revealed that she has been raped by her grandfather and apparently he is the father to the child. Okay moment of contemplation for all you folks who still don’t get where I am going with this.

Can someone tell me, how the heck can the police say something like it was ‘simply’ a case of her dumping the newborn? Was there a great master plan that was going through her mind that was saying, “Okay after the birth I’m going to dump it here”? Is that the simple term that was running through the cop’s mind when he said what he said? Or maybe there is a high rate of newborn dumping going on, and he is an old hand at this kind of case. The other part of the story that irked me is that the cop once again announced that there would be a detailed investigation to whether the girl had malicious intent to harm the baby.

I don’t know if I’m making any sense to any of these besides what I think of this whole subject. The baby is doing fine and is sent to the local hospital, and the report ended with the case being looked up by the State Welfare Department.