This isn’t just loopy. It’s sick. Evil, actually.<\/p>\n
A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby.<\/p>\n
Deputies were called to a home in the 1200 block of Lone Jack Road in Rustburg around 11:00a.m. Friday. The caller said a woman in her early 20s was in labor. When deputies arrived, they discovered the baby had actually been born around 1:00a.m., about ten hours earlier. Investigators say the baby was already dead when deputies got there.<\/p>\n
Investigators tell WSLS the baby\u2019s airway was still blocked. They say the baby was under bedding and had been suffocated by her mother. Investigators say because the mother and baby were still connected by the umbilical cord and placenta, state law does not consider the baby to be a separate life. Therefore, the mother cannot be charged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the state of Virginia as long as the umbilical cord is attached and the placenta is still in the mother, if the baby comes out alive the mother can do whatever she wants to with that baby to kill it,” says Investigator Tracy Emerson. \u201cShe could shoot the baby, stab the baby. As long as it\u2019s still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something it\u2019s no crime in the state of Virginia.”<\/p>\n
The Campbell County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney\u2019s office worked unsuccessfully to get the law changed after another baby died in the county in a similar case. Emerson says they asked two delegates and one state senator to take the issue up in the General Assembly. He says the three lawmakers refused because they felt the issue was too close to the abortion issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Can’t touch infanticide because it’s too close to abortion. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n
So what are they lacking? A spine? A heart? A conscience?<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s a moral compass.<\/p>\n
And compassionate morality.<\/p>\n
Truly we live in depraved, perilous times.<\/p>\n
The full article might interest you: Mother won’t be charged with baby’s death because of law loophole<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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