Dumping babies

February 23, 2008

ER Stories: “Every now and again, we all are treated to some horrific story of a baby being abandoned by a young teen-aged mother. Sometimes it appears that the girl is in total denial about even being pregnant – hence the apparent “justification” for doing such a terrible thing. Well, one night last year, we had one of these patients.”



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1 Anonymous February 23, 2008 at 2:27 pm

This happened just this week, but the mother is 29, the baby was delivered in the ER restroom and subsequently discarded right in the ER restroom wastebasket.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5558744.html

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