Teen Tried To Flush Newborn Down Toilet

(AP)  A 14-year-old girl gave birth in a restroom at her junior high, and the baby boy cried once before she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing him, officials said Thursday.

An autopsy confirmed the baby was alive when born Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, near Houston. The boy was probably full term and cried before the mother, an eighth-grader, tried to flush him, said police Lt. Eric Freed.

The mother was taken to a hospital. People who knew her at school said she wore baggy clothing, and nobody suspected she was pregnant, The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday.

School officials learned of her pregnancy when another student who was in the restroom while the eighth-grader was in labor went to ask the school nurse for help, said Kathy Clausen, spokeswoman for Baytown's Goose Creek school district.

The nurse and an assistant principal ran to the bathroom, discovered the girl had given birth and called 911.

Authorities have not announced what charges the girl will face, if any. Killing an infant is a capital crime in Texas, but 14-year-olds are too young to be eligible for the death penalty, said Geoffrey Corn, an assistant professor at South Texas College of Law.

The infant died just three days after another 14-year-old girl delivered a stillborn fetus in the bathroom of an airplane on her way back to Houston from a middle-school field trip.

Baytown is about 25 miles east of Houston.

[michellem99-2009]

She had to know a newborn would not go down the loo. Does TX have a means where a newborn can be taken to a fire house,hospital no ?s asked..Wa state does..

[michellem99-2009]

It is time for school dress code. Time for prisom/gang look to be over with. set rules for them..have that talk many times about sexx,babies..time for adults of the likes of this girl step up to the plate. I am aware the staff can''t lay a paw on the girl. Her parents are to blame as she is a minor.

[michellem99-2009]

FIRE THE NUSRE..I was visiting my birth mum years ago. Mum asked me what was wrorg with my then 14 yr old sister..It strunk me ood mum had no idea..i asked has she had her period yet..she as an adult WAS dumb..her answer i don''t know..WELL IF NOT SHE WILL BEFORE I LEAVE..there was no pads for her..I gave her mine. This is how some parents are. The girl must have been so scared that mama/dad would beat bad..sad..

[hypnotoad72]

Man; kids having kids. Nobody''s cared about that. Except put in sections in the yearbook devoted to the happy parent(s), and not in a shameful way.

Now it''s kids having kids and killing them the moment they pop out.

Sorry to sound "draconian", but apart from reverting to techniques that once worked to keep this sort of thing from happening, maybe they need to be done again? Right down to school uniforms. In the 1980s, the stuff allowed was bad enough, but I''ve digressed too far.

[jkhagemann]

newsterl

Interesting comments. I would judge you unfit to live free. I would recommend you to refrain from posting anything in the future. Remember... what you just posted can/will be traced back to you at sometime in the near future.

[rohink-2009]

Exactly right- returned to maker postage due! We are WAY overpopulated as it is, the US population was HALF in 1950 what it is now, every new mouth we dont need is another nail in the coffin of this planet''''s viability, and survival for those of us living on it, along with the animals.
The kid would have grown up and add another car to the highways, another house being built, another house on the grid and tractor trailers full of food, water, waste and garbage over its lifetime.
Humans have totally overrun this planet, destroying massive areas all over it, time for the human scourge to be REDUCED in numbers.

The girl probably cant face more than juvie hall till she is 18

Posted by newsterl

Judging by your posts, I would consider you human scourge.

[rohink-2009]

newsterl

Or she could have murdered an innocent child. If you have no regard for human life, killing an innocent baby is nothing.

[mjvw2]

she shouldn''t be punished with a child

[kansas1946]

Her crime according to Obama is practicing abortion without a license. We shouldn''''t judge her actions as wrong, because she is probably just a typical white girl. If it''''s a cultural thing then it also can''''t be judged as wrong.


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Posted by rick_harsch at 12:23 AM : Apr 05, 2008
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Are you sure you don''t want to blame Bill Clinton. Come on, surely you can come up with something to tie Clinton to this, plus Barack Obama. I know you can do it. Use your imagination.

[cantshutup]

i''d like to hear the other half of the story...like who impregnated this 14 yr old child?