Reply #84: Yeah - and how many stories have you read about teenagers who hide pregnancies

[jberryhill]

...all the way to term, and abandon their babies.

Do a google search on neonaticide - women conceal pregnancies OFTEN and SUCCESSFULLY

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=20483

Prosecutors portrayed the teenager from Jamaica as a calculating young woman who had hidden her pregnancy because she feared that immigration authorities would discover she was staying in the U.S. on an expired visitor's visa. They said she had lied to friends and family about being pregnant, despite many opportunities to reveal her condition, so as not to jeopardize her comfortable life in Maryland. She had even timed the moment when she placed the newborn in the trash, prosecutors said, to ensure that the garbage truck would crush the baby and conceal her secret.

In her defense, Montague maintained that she hadn't known she was pregnant until her delivery. Then she panicked and hid the baby in the trash until she could figure out how to tell the family she was staying with about the birth. She said she intended to go back for the child.