Abandoned Baby's Mother Won't Face Charges

That leaves her to try her "post-birth abortion" somewhere else. Great justice system!

It sure is a good thing that the father of that baby didn't have any say in what she did with the child they BOTH parented. Hell, he may have wanted to give it a loving home or some ridiculous crap like that. I hope she didn't even tell him she was pregers. I mean why should he even have a say on what restroom she would leave the baby in!? Her body her choice right!?

/sarcasm
/wrists

Wednesday’s decision doesn't mean the county attorney isn't filing anything. He’s moving forward with a case in juvenile court, not against the mother per se, but to make sure "John Doe" is properly placed with a family, maybe even a relative of the mother.

Why not the father?

Oh, I know, he must be older then he girl, raped her to get her pregnant, and then abandoned her in her time of most need. What a savage inhuman monster the father must be!

I sure hope that DA does not forget to find him and make him pay for his violation of this young woman. A few years in prison for rape followed by an dept load of back child support and executive at a fortune 500 company would have trouble paying and completely imposable for a convicted sex offender to even imagine being able to pay.

That'll teach that bastard of a man who caused this whole thing to happen with his uncontrollable sexual urges and his forcing this poor girl to not use any form of birth control for weeks prior to impregnating her with his bastard seed.

While we're at it we should also give this poor brave angel of a woman a full scholarship to the university of her choice, preferably Harvard as their new President is sensitive to the struggles women face from the evil oppressive patriarchy.

That way, since we are trying to place that child with a relative of hers, when she graduates with top honors from Harvard (which she is guaranteed to do because she's been through so much we will help her out along the way by just giving her top marks regardless of actual performance), she can choose to take the child back from her relative, and be a full time stay at home mother and care for her child with lots of self esteem having a degree from Harvard!

Then, by the time her child is off to community collage or prison (the child is a male after all) and the evil father is finally out of debtors prison, he can start paying the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes this brave woman and she can enjoy her life in a manner befitting a Harvard grad.

Poor dear, I mean her only crime was hearing that she could get pregnant and ditch the kid with absolutely no responsibility whatsoever thanks to safe haven laws without actually bothering to find out if her State is "progressive" enough to have a safe haven law.

/feminist fantasy

look what the young woman herself said about it "She was scared," says Kleine. "Had heard about safe haven laws and thought this was part of it and took the child to the hospital. Wrote a note about please helping her with this child."

Teaching the young woman about safe haven laws instead of birth control sure worked out in the best interests of everyone involved didn't it! Oh, wait, no, it only worked out in HER best interests and absolutely no one else's. Now, the State is going to forcibly dump the child on a relative of hers who may not want it. We have a father out there who's likely to get sued for support even though he may not even know of the birth of this child - heck, mommy might even just randomly pick some wealthy man to name daddy for the State to go after. The male will be blamed for the whole thing and he'll be called the irresponsible one because this woman likely planned to get pregnant knowing full well if she had second thoughts she could rely on these 'safe haven laws' she heard about - probably in school in health class where they told her nothing about birth control or relationships - and just ditch the kid without having to shell out cash for an abortion.

Yup, women sure don't have equal rights. That damn patriarchy lets women get away with things in a State where that 'right' to abandon one's child does not even exist. But at least this woman will be able to steal the kid from the only - hopefully loving - home that he knows whenever she decides she's finally ready to play mommy.

I see a lot of anger on this article's discussion forum but couldn't this be an opportunity to promote some true equality for once? Here's what I wrote - will see if they actually approve it.

It's unfortunate that Nebraska doesn't have a safe haven law. I believe this woman was trying to do the right thing, but unfortunately the law was not there to back her in this case. I also think that the father should have been contacted and given an opportunity to be in his child's life. Of course, the state in this case has decided to treat the father as a non-person. He may not even have been informed of the pregnancy. It's very hypocritical to blame the father for walking away (since we have no idea what really happened) while at the same time extolling the virtues of this woman who was also basically trying to walk away from her baby (double standard anyone?). I think safe haven laws are a good thing but they need to apply equally to men and women - aka if a woman gets this right, then a man should have the SAME right to walk away from a child without consequence. Doing otherwise is hypocritical and a violation of the 14th amendment (equal protection under law).

Though in this case I think the State should be actively seeking out the father - and not for the purposes of billing him for all the trouble caused by the mother of his child.

I think they should find him and tell him he has a son and give the boy over to his custody along with an offer of help and support equal to what is available to single mothers though he should have a counselor assigned to explain what help is out there for him as most men do not know they have any options when it comes to raising their own children.

He should not be assumed negligent, or in any way unfit as the State does not have any idea what the circumstances are that led to him not being there for his little boy. The negligent and selfish mother who through her actions demonstrated that she is unfit and unwilling to be a parent should not be believed in her account of the fathers character as it is in her best interests to paint him in a negative light to gain further sympathy for her self. He like any other human being who brings a life into this world should have the right to raise that child as he sees fit unless through his own actions it is proven that he is in some way unfit. Right now he should have full 100% legal rights to his child

I recall an article not long ago that asked the question: "{some large %} of mothers leave their children with relatives while they are working. What is the most common relative the child is left with?"

People guessed grandparents, aunts, siblings, etc. The answer? Fathers. Now I suppose by the strictest definition, the father is definately a relative of both the child and the mother. But clearly the study was misleading. Hopefully most people don't consider a father caring for his child as the mother "leaving the kid with relatives". Sadly that seems often the case.

Perhaps by 'relative of the mother', she means the father, but that's just wishful thinking.