Reply #29: It sounds to me like an instance of good intentions gone awry

[Straight Shooter]

This bill was requested by the Chesapeake Police Department in its legislative package due to instances of full term babies who were abandoned shortly after birth. These poor children died horrible deaths and all that the person responsible could be charged with is the improper disposal of a human body.

I cannot jump on the bash Cosgrove bandwagon if the intent was honorable and ended up being poorly worded. If the CPD did in fact request this in its legislative package, then let's step back for a moment and look at it from their perspective. Has any of us come upon an abandoned newborn, now dead, in a dumpster? Put yourself in their shoes and imagine their helpless rage unless there is some kind of law to go after women -- and I will add their partners, too -- who would deliberately and callously inflict such a death upon a newborn.