My question is what would she had done with a live baby? kept her hidden in the room? ahh no ..So to me it seems awful convenient the baby was "stillborn".
I don't know about what the Jury may do. They may believe she was very naïve and scared.
This is an excellent point. After reading the texts between herself and her Mother...do we really believe she could have walked out for breakfast and said,”Hey, Mom, come see what I have in my room.”
She’d been told a baby would ruin her life, she would have to work to support it, no college. In the moments after she births the child, as she is confronted with the reality...how...convenient...that “maybe” she squeezed it a little too tight.
And the joy after the baby’s death!
Whether her Mother damaged her or not, she is NOW what she is. As a society, how far and to whom to we provide “get out of jail free cards” to eighteen year olds who kill..because they didn’t have good parents.
There are younger kids on trial in places today...gang members who chose acceptance in that group..with only a heroin addict at home to raise them. Are their trials discussed or their crimes ameliorated in terms of the terrible parenting they received?
Maybe if their lawyers tell them to speak in baby voice...say “boy doctor” etc.
Who is to say how Kim was raised...how she turned out to be the Mother she is? What do we know about her Mother? Maybe Grandma is to blame for the baby’s death because she raised Kim to be the woman SHE is, right? How far back can we go to hold Skylar blameless and make her the victim, not the killer?
Skylar seems to be absolved of all responsibility by some and the “crime” transferred to her Mother. But I see that as a selective transference that other young defendants are never afforded.
So who gets to blame Mommy and go back to cheerleading and college frat parties...and who gets to face penalties no matter how absent or horrific their respective “family” home and be sent, without further thought...to a lengthy jail term.
This case disturbs me in many ways.
