Wow, Nancy Grace can't seem to hear anybody talking but herself and people who agree with her.
She was told early in the show that the '32 blows' were caused by the scissors as the girl tried to pry the baby out of herself, not by a blunt object type of thing. But Nancy Grace HAS TO mention every five seconds thereafter that the baby was 'beaten 32 times'..
Seems to me throughout the show Ms Grace is drumming up support for her own personal sense of outrage rather than inviting any kind of measured discussion. I actually have no idea who Nancy Grace is, or what her show is about. But I hated reading that transcript and its lynch mob kind of feel.
I'm not sure whether this girl should or shouldn't be tried as an adult for the murder of her child. What I am reasonably sure of is that she has some kind of colossal mental problem, to do that to herself (those scissor wounds top her vagina must have been agonising) and to her baby. Something.. to state the obvious ... is definitely not right there.
The whole relationship with her mother sounds a bit off. The mother was in abject denial, indeed, and I have to wonder what was going on at home on a day to day basis, what kind of relationship they had there. My bet is that it wasn't a healthy one.
I found the 911 call from the girl's aunt really interesting.
"They don't know how to handle things like I do." (I wonder what this means..)
"It's a full.." (.. term baby?)
Yet she was convinced it was a 5-month old fetus until she actually arrived at the house and saw a full term baby .. in the sink. A fetus supposedly miscarried by the girl who took two pregnancy tests that showed she supposedly wasn't pregnant..
Seems to me the girl wasn't the only one who wanted there not to be any baby at all.
And why on earth did the teenager's mother put the dead baby in a sink and then call -- not the police, not 911 -- her sister to come handle it?
Something is totally not alright in that home. I hope this aspect of the case gets investigated properly, as how does anyone know whether or not that mother made a career out of messing her daughter's head up and -that- is why this teenager mutilated her own privates and then murdered her child. It could make a monumental difference to the rest of this girl's life if she is mentally ill and/or influenced by a seriously disturbed parent -- OR make sure she is punished appropriately, in the case she really was simply a cold-blooded baby killer..
I had to facepalm, though, at Nancy Grace bleating on about 'what if this was a boy?"
Well, a boy would not be a/ knocked up and b/ slicing his own baby out of his vagina for reasons unknown, would he? What an idiotic point of argument that was.
