You will have trouble believing this.
The authorities are calling their inability to prosecute the mother for murder a “loophole in the law.”
Mother Murders Child and Walks Away
In a shocking and heartbreaking story that seems to defy all reason, Angela Hatcher of NBC 12 in Virginia reported today that a mother who killed her newborn baby by suffocating it under bed sheets cannot and will not be charged of murder due to a loop hole in Virginia state law. According to the law, if a child is still connected to its mother by umbilical cord, it has not yet assumed its own identity, and is therefore the property of the mother.
Investigator Tracy Emerson said that the mother “could shoot the baby, stab the baby as long as it’s still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something and it’s no crime in the state of Virginia… Simply because the mother was there, and the baby had not taken its own identity allegedly at this point, it makes the baby not its own person.”
Emerson went on to say that the baby was full-term, healthy, and that the mother was aware of her pregnancy and had even received prenatal care. Could it get any worse?
Hatcher reported that there had been “similar case” in Campbell County before and investigators like Tracy Emerson had approached lawmakers about closing this terrible loophole. Apparently, no representatives were willing to alter the law because it was “too close to the abortion issue.”
Really? I’d like to see a normal person try to justify this heinous act of murder, or even justify ignoring it, because they were afraid to bring up “the abortion issue.”
This past summer, the federal appeals court in Richmond voted to uphold a ban on partial birth abortion. That means the horrific and gruesome practice of killing children in the womb is illegal, while at the same time, a woman who goes through the pains of labor is allowed to murder her child? It’s all infanticide, and it all should be illegal.
The partial birth abortion ban was a huge victory for pro-life forces in Virginia. How cynical that a victory for children in the womb would be followed by an injustice for those who have survived to make it out? Fortunately Governor-elect Bob McDonnell has said that he will sign any law that makes it to his desk regarding this issue. State Senator Steve Newman told local news reporters that he has already started drafting a bill.
The “pro-choice” position has so poisoned the conscience of America that I fear for our nation. If we will tolerate this, what won’t we tolerate?
I’m sure that Peter Singer sees no problem with this, no problem at all.
December 22nd, 2009 10:12 am
I am disgusted and sickened by this report. The whole Virginia legislature has blood on their hands. We think of ourselves as civilized yet we continue the wholesale slaughter of the innocent.
December 22nd, 2009 10:36 am
Every civilization that sanctions the killing of the innocent perceives itself to be civilized. I have known girls who have had abortions and have intentionally seared their consciences in an attempt to avoid feelings of guilt. I have also known women (not Christians) who have tearfully confessed an abortion to me when it was performed to save the mother’s own life. They may appear to be okay, but they never get over it. The conseequences of sin will either bring a person to repentance or send them on a mission to encourage others to sin in order to salve their own conscience. Think about Eve. When she sinned, rather than confess to God, she encouraged Adam to join her – and he did. And all of mankind has suffered as a result. Judgement of this nation is not going to be fun.
December 26th, 2009 10:24 am
“Judgement of this nation will not be fun” while I see the point of what you are saying I can’t help but be excited in anticipation for tHat day. In one day it will all be over and his love will be the foundation for humanity. Although it is bleak and hard to find any joy on the topic of infantacide, I believe that when the Lord comes those babies will be raised by loving parents, perhaps by ones who could never have kids. They won’t have to live in this world either. They will grow up in heaven.
So no matter what wicked course sin may take us on christ love remains the Victor.