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Saturday, December 18, 2004

A Sad Story Gets Sadder

Police found the baby alive and it has been taken to its father. That's the happy part. The sadder part is that, apparently, the woman who kidnapped the baby had had a miscarriage earlier in the year. Wow - how terrible.

CNN.com - Baby found alive; woman arrested

1 comment:

klasieprof said...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=2&u=/washpost/20041219/ts_washpost/a10074_2004dec18
Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths

2 hours, 11 minutes ago Top Stories - washingtonpost.com


By Donna St. George, Washington Post Staff Writer

Their killings produced only a few headlines, but across the country in the last decade, hundreds of pregnant women and new mothers have been slain. Even as Scott Peterson (news - web sites)'s trial became a public fascination, little was said about how often is happens, why, and whether it is a fluke or a social syndrome.


First of three articles


Their deaths passed quietly. Tara Chambers, 29, was gunned down on a June morning inside her North Carolina home. Rebecca Johnson, 16, was shot in the chest as she sat in a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Ana Diaz, 28, was killed in a parking lot in Reston as she stopped to get a friend on their way to work.


They all were pregnant, with futures that seemed sure to unfold over many years. One was a nurse's assistant who planned to name her daughter T'Kaiya. Another had just bought a house. The youngest was a high school cheerleader.


Their killings produced a few local headlines, then faded, each a seeming aberration in the community where it happened.


But pregnant women like them have been slain in Maryland and Mississippi, in California and Kansas, in Ohio and Illinois. Jenny McMechen, 24, was shot in a friend's home in Plainfield, Conn., and Kerry Repp, 29, was shot in her Oregon bedroom, and Tasha Winters, 16, was shot in Indiana the day she told her boyfriend about the baby. Ardena Carter, 24, was found dead in the Georgia woods, and Kathleen Terry, 22, was run over in Idaho, and Melesha Francis, 26, was strangled in New York, and Thelma Jones, 21, was shot sitting on her back steps in Louisiana -- the day her mother ordered a cake for her baby shower.


A year-long examination by The Washington Post of death-record data in states across the country documents the killings of 1,367 pregnant women and new mothers since 1990. This is only part of the national toll, because no reliable system is in place to track such cases.

YIKES>>>Nasty article...