Protect Pregnant Women: Free Bei Bei Shuai

[XanaDUer]

http://www.thenation.com/article/166664/protect-pregnant-women-free-bei-bei-shuai

SNIP - In December 2010 Shuai was running a Chinese restaurant in Indianapolis with her boyfriend, Zhiliang Guan, by whom she was eight months pregnant. Just before Christmas, he informed her that he was married and had another family, to which he was returning. When Shuai begged him to stay, he threw money at her and left her weeping on her knees in a parking lot. Despairing, she took rat poison and wrote a letter in Mandarin saying she was killing herself and would “take this baby with me to Hades”; friends got her to the hospital just in time to save her life. Eight days later her baby, Angel, was delivered by Caesarean section and died of a cerebral hemorrhage within four days. Three months later, the newly elected prosecutor, Terry Curry—a Democrat—brought charges, claiming that the rat poison that almost killed Shuai had killed her baby. If convicted, she faces forty-five to sixty-five years in prison....

[RC]

1. Is there no real justice in America anymore?

The woman has suffered enough. The father of the dead child, walks free. At the very least, he needs to be charged as an accessory to any crimes charged against the woman.
What good does it do for anyone, if this woman spends most of the rest of her life in prison? None that I can see. She needs help, not locked away.

[XanaDUer]

2. I've contacted the reps in IN

A Handmaiden's Tale seems to be coming true

[midnight]

3. I was wondering about the father too.... How is it that he is able to walk away free?

[RZM]

5. What grounds would there be for charging him as an acessory in the child's death?

I'm not a lawyer, of course. And it's a highly dickish move to get a woman pregnant and then leave her. But it does happen all of the time. I think men who do that are scumbags of the first order, but I don't see how he could be charged in the child's death.

[BlueIris]

4. She belongs in long term therapy, not jail.

Nice use of taxpayer resources, Mr. Curry.