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The "arrest in connection with" case is about 10 miles from my house -- a place I've frequented.
Is it wrong to feel empathy with that mother?
I feel empathy for her. It sounds like she has some mental issues.The "arrest in connection with" case is about 10 miles from my house -- a place I've frequented.
Is it wrong to feel empathy with that mother?
The "arrest in connection with" case is about 10 miles from my house -- a place I've frequented.
Is it wrong to feel empathy with that mother?
Like a vast majority of states, New York has so-called safe haven laws to allow parents to anonymously leave unwanted infants, without fear of prosecution, at sites like hospitals or firehouses. Officials said that churches are included in the places covered by the law, but the parent must alert someone to the child’s presence, or leave the child in the care of someone at the location. Neither happened in this case, the police said.
Have we lost our minds here?
Or are we just overwhelmed by the sentimentality of the season? The mother of the child who lived could have left her baby at a hospital or fire station--no questions asked--under NY's safe haven law. Or she could have waited until somebody returned to the creche so that she was sure her infant would be promptly discovered.
Instead, she took the chance that her baby would suffer no complications and would be discovered before it suffered the consequences of exposure in the creche. What if the caretaker had decided he didn't have time to do more work on the manger scene that day?
Yes, I have empathy in both cases and I'm glad that things worked out well for one of the babies; but we shouldn't blind ourselves to the potential risks of abandoning a baby in a manger scene.
As a symbolic gesture, leaving a baby in a creche may be appealing. In practical terms, not very wise.
Feeling empathy is never wrong IMOThe "arrest in connection with" case is about 10 miles from my house -- a place I've frequented.
Is it wrong to feel empathy with that mother?
Have we lost our minds here?
Or are we just overwhelmed by the sentimentality of the season? The mother of the child who lived could have left her baby at a hospital or fire station--no questions asked--under NY's safe haven law. Or she could have waited until somebody returned to the creche so that she was sure her infant would be promptly discovered.
Imagine being a new priest, and told: there's a live baby in your manger.
Hudson Police Commissioner Gary Graziano said he was unaware of the Safe Haven Law until recently
I think the problem with safe haven laws is that people in that state of mind can't often logic things out very well. The place the baby was left suggests that emotions were running much higher than logic circuits...and sadly I think that contributes to the cases where the newborn is found deceased.
I think this is (usually) very different from battering a several-month-old child, or older, to death.
Have we lost our minds here?
Or are we just overwhelmed by the sentimentality of the season? The mother of the child who lived could have left her baby at a hospital or fire station--no questions asked--under NY's safe haven law. Or she could have waited until somebody returned to the creche so that she was sure her infant would be promptly discovered.
Instead, she took the chance that her baby would suffer no complications and would be discovered before it suffered the consequences of exposure in the creche. What if the caretaker had decided he didn't have time to do more work on the manger scene that day?
Yes, I have empathy in both cases and I'm glad that things worked out well for one of the babies; but we shouldn't blind ourselves to the potential risks of abandoning a baby in a manger scene.
As a symbolic gesture, leaving a baby in a creche may be appealing. In practical terms, not very wise.
When the baby came out, she was too scared to cut the umbilical chord and had no clothes for her baby, so she walked him naked to the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens on November 23.
She said that the child's lips turned purple so she ran into a store and bought a towel to wrap him in, then rushed him into the church.