Three Women Indicted for Infanticide
Three women were indicted in Pima County for the death of a 1-year-old baby girl. The women are her mother Kiyana Higgins, 23, aunt Keshawna Higgins, 25, and grandmother Clara Huyghue, 53. The little girl weighed less than 15 pounds which was caused by malnutrition. For comparison, 15 pounds is the average weight for a […]
Missouri Baby Survives Stab Wounds
No one is really sure what happened in this case. The only facts we can see so far are that a mother took her baby into the woods near her Missouri home and when the police found them, both had knife wounds. The baby survived despite having her throat slit. There has been a lot […]
Texas Stats on Abandonment and Abuse
There is a link to today’s article below. I am not going to give very many details on it since it is a very short article, but I urge you to read it. It includes some absolutely terrifying and disheartening statistics on child abandonment and abuse in Texas. If you read many articles on this […]
Child Neglect has Dire Consequences
I think anyone familiar with the history of Safe Haven remembers Baby Mary. Her abuse and death led Pennsylvania to pass the laws to protect babies from suffering her same fate. More specifically, she was from Northumberland County. A decade after her death, we have another story from her home that is also tragic. A […]
Support for Caylee’s Law
Today I would like to talk about Caylee’s Law. I know the subject has been talked about for months, but I do want to stress the importance of this law. While it came about in a horrible, tragic way, it will hopefully save lives in the long run. This proposed law, brought on by the […]
Casey Anthony Makes Some Question Age Limits in Safe Haven Laws
In the wake of the Casey Anthony case many people are questioning the age limits that are stipulated in Safe Haven Laws. What do you think? Should all children be accepted at Safe Haven locations? Keep in mind what happened in my own home state of Nebraska when all minors were accepted. Many parents dropped […]
Infant Abandoned Outdoors at a Trailer Park
Another baby was abandoned in an unsafe, outdoor location. The mother Sara J. Clauson, 26, has been charged with reckless endangerment for the incident. She gave birth and then left the child on a neighbor’s lawn in the trailer park where she lived. The baby was alone for 6 hours before she was discovered. I […]
Does the Prevalence of Infanticide Signify a Problem with Society?
This article does not deal with a specific scenario involving infanticide, but speaks about the problem in general and why it is so persistent. One quote really stands out to me and is the today’s topic: Infanticides “…are the tragic outcome of specific situations, but they are also evidence of pervasive problems in society – […]
Rebecca Blackmore Charged with 1st Degree Murder for Stabbing her Infant
Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse than a father dropping a cinderblock on his newborn baby… …until I see this article where 16-year-old Rebecca Blackmore actually stabbed her infant and left it in a closet to die. First of all, where were this girl’s parents? Did no one notice that she was pregnant? […]
Melissa Cathryn McMillen: Mother of Unwanted Infant
Melissa Cathryn McMillen, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder for her daughter’s death. She claims the child was stillborn, but medical examiners disagree though the actual cause of death has not been released. She gave birth on the toilet and left the newborn in it for 90 minutes afterward. She then placed the child […]
