It’s hard to believe this is going on in America.
A woman in Virginia gives birth. While the umbilical cord is still attached to the placenta, and the placenta is still inside her, she smothers the baby, killing it.
The state finds itself unable to prosecute the woman because the liberal establishment has the government too intimidated to call it “murder.”
A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby.
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.
Investigators tell WSLS the baby’s 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.
“In 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. “She could shoot the baby, stab the baby. As long as it’s still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something it’s no crime in the state of Virginia.“
The article claimed the father was upset when he found out the next morning. She wasn’t alone in this.
It also said she had received prenatal care. She was trying to keep the baby healthy.
What in the world made her do this?
The law enforcement community has tried to get the law changed, lobbying legislators to close the loophole. They were too scared:
The Campbell County Sheriff’s Office and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s 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.
The baby was full term. It was alive when it was born. But because these three COWARDS were too scared to upset Planned Parenthood and the rest of the liberal, pro-abortion advocates, this little girl died and there’s no repercussions for it.
This is all very difficult to stomach, and harder to believe. But regardless of the asinine attempts of some to claim they understand the state laws of Virginia better than the law enforcement personnel and legislators in that state, this is going on.
In my opinion, this woman is no better than an animal that kills its young right after birth. The only difference is she didn’t eat it.
Hat Tip: Hot Air
