A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern
Source: MystikSpiralx
A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern
Source: MystikSpiralx
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“Mitcham told the reporter she claimed the remains of Abel from a Nevada funeral home and recounted how she told the funeral director: “I’m taking him. That’s my baby,” according to the Washington Post report.”
So a deputy claimed someone else’s babies cremated remains as their own and kept this on a shelf. That’s disturbing.
So sick and tired of religionist nutcases imposing their superstitious nitwittery on poor women’s family planning decisions. Fucking ghouls.
Not enough zeroes in that settlement, needed at least one if not two more. That the implication from the article is that the Deputy Sheriff that started this whole sordid affair still has Abel’s remains, and the mom doesn’t know where that deputy or where her baby’s remains are today indicates a real level of depravity on the part of that deputy.
> Judge Charles McGee wrote in a strongly worded decision that Rousseau’s case “ranks right up there with a thankfully precious few cases involving a total miscarriage of justice.”
Womp womp womp womp
Seriously tho, I remember reading about women in South America being jailed for that ten years ago and thought, “How barbaric!” Now, that’s banned there and happening here.
This is yet another human rights violation by the theocracy. Ban prostate surgery and watch them freak out.
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> it’s all deeply fucking weird. It is weird to be obsessed with someone else’s miscarriage remains. It is weird to see someone else’s stillborn fetal remains as your ‘child.’ This is not normal behavior!
https://jessica.substack.com/p/unmasking-the-creeps-ghouls-and-weirdos
Why is that deputy not facing charges??
A lot to unpack here but one thing that bothers me is that if I go out and kill somebody and it goes to trial, the state has to prove my guilt. They can’t prove guilt in these cases. There’s usually no one who can bear witness as to whether a baby born at 24 weeks or later attempted to breathe or anything. It’s horrifying to think of the scene, of course, and I’m not saying women never have any culpability here. (Though heaven knows childbirth is a mind altering experience, I mean you seriously go into a different realm of reality.) I’m just saying the burden should be on the state to prove guilt and it’s not really possible in most of these cases so I don’t understand why so many women are in prison for it. 25% of known pregnancies just end with miscarriage, although it’s usually in the first few months. This means the bar should be even higher for the state proving guilt.
I also remember reading about these cases in Central America and thinking, where women go to prison for decades after a miscarriage, and thinking man, and people want that here. They called me crazy, they said that would never happen here. But they also said Roe v Wade was settled law…
There was a girl in Ohio was charged with murder because she had a miscarriage. WTF ….they didn’t do it in porpoise .
Absolutely revolting to treat someone who went through a miscarriage that way. It is not only an affront to human rights but to basic human decency. The settlement was way too low and even if it was higher it will never be enough to rectify the harm they brought upon her.
“… miscarriage of justice…” did the author really have to say that?
I’m not an expert, but I don’t think it takes one to spot the patters: just read the Handmaid’s Tale. Or, if you’re pressed for time, watch the series.
I wonder what happened to your kids
Desecration of a body?
Hey my dudes over the pond. Gilead is not something to strive for. Thanks!
So many Americans without a working braincell. It is really astonishing how they manage to take care of themself. Who the f*** thinks it’s criminal to have a stillbirth? Only in America.