These lawyers are offensive and I hope some of their fellow brethren let them know just that within the informal peer scrutiny that is practiced in legal circles. So this tells me (at least in my mind) that they are not being paid and have yet to find a funding source, ie; get to Shelia Mack's money and secondly they are going to so deeply invest their firm in this case they will have some basis, even the weakest basis upon which they could petition a court for payment for services rendered from some source ie; get to Sheila Mack's money. While I am pretty sure this will be some perverted form of a test case due to the Indonesia jurisdiction, they certainly are doing the most to reach a funding source ie; get to Sheila Mack's money. I hope the Indonesian peoples are offended as well and this all backfires on these two and their client.
IMO, HM is being well cared for and there has been nothing to suggest that the diet the baby will be fed, that is after HM breastfeeds her will not be adequate or healthy. As for the prison environment I suspect I will be in the minority here when I say that aspect concerns me the least. If you are familiar with some of the US penal system programs that have prison nurseries and facilitate the bonding and secure attachment for the babies, they have a very good track record. If you have ever worked in or visited prisons, yes, it is a different place but probably not of the stereotypes that many are imagining and espousing in the comments of the article. Babies born and cared for in prisons elicit a hyper-level of compassion and protection both from the authorities and the inmates alike and generally results in a strong sense of community and functions as one within prison society. I think there will be enough checks in place just as with HM, to insure the baby is not harmed nor do I think she would be harmed by the physical environment. Is it one that any of us would choose for ourselves, of course not. But babies are born under much worse circumstances and thrive, HM put herself where she is and while morally I can object to her being allowed to raising her child initially, it is what it is, she is pregnant and this is what their penal system allows. HM is not the first killer to give birth nor will she be the last and at this point, as much as it pains me to point it out, she has not been convicted of any offense to date, and that is a fact. Morally I'd love to see she and TS give this child up right after birth to a good unrelated family far, far away from her birth relatives but that is not going to happen because she is worth too much to many of the current players or at least to HM, she is pretty much her ace in the hole or saving grace as it were.
That is what offends me the most, none of this is about the baby really, not a bit. If not for Sheila Mack's money, we would not even know the names of Elkin and his sidekick and we'd have probably heard even less of the case than we have so far. The appeal for charity by them under the guise of being the saviors of the fetus at this point makes me want to puke and that's the mildest reaction I have. Furthermore, I am completely aghast that in general Sheila Mack has been relegated at this point to the position of least importance with justice running a close second in this case
