Jail refuses to let mother pump breast milk for newborn

[AmandaBrown23]

That's just not true. People in jail do have rights; jail simply limits some of their freedoms.

This woman has not even been tried in a court of law - she says she had no idea her brother stole the CD. Why in the world won't they let her provide breastmilk for her child - it seems like a ridiculous position for the jail to take. I hope she can get the Court Order she needs.

I agree. After I read what I typed it didnt sound like what I was thinking.

 

[LovingTheChaos]

http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/379959.html

Update - they have released her after 4 days. Apparently, the jail officials weren't aware of federal guidelines allowing lactating women jailed on immigration violations to be released to feed their baby's. What is it they say about ignorance of the law??

After 4 days, she is going to have to build her supply back up.

http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/381449.html

She was already planning on going back to Brazil & had purchased tickets before her arrest. Now she will have to stay here & go to court on the charges. Sheesh, let her & her baby go home already.

 

[southcitymom]

I agree. After I read what I typed it didnt sound like what I was thinking.

LOL- I feel like that regularly after I read what I type!!

 

[Details]

That's nuts! She already had the plane tickets and was on her way home, and they're holding her? OK, yeah, we need to make sure she's on that plane, but she's nowhere near the risk of an illegal who was hiding and trying to stay here.

Glad there are laws to protect babies getting their breastmilk. Hope she was able to do a little pumping of some kind - I remember how much that hurt, just the first time hubby fed baby a bottle in the morning and let me sleep in - ouch!

 

[Details]

...Nope, no need to discuss it. I'll be all over my daughter with advice, though, when she gives me grandbabies. Otherwise, I'm all about a woman's right to choose how she raises her baby - as long as there isn't any danger involved.

Likewise. Every situation is unique - but the statistics and averages are all I was talking about. But everyone is going to do something non-optimal - whether it's not going with pure organic food, letting them have nuts, or whatever.


Still - women in prison - sad stats tell us the children are more likely to grow up to be criminals too. Probably not so much in this case - but women in jail in general. For those children - any bit of involvement their mothers can manage - I hope it just slightly improves their chances.

 

[txsvicki]

If the woman is an illegal, she could have parasites or some tropical illness that she brought to our country. I wouldn't want to handle breast milk or any sort of bodily fluid for any inmate,/QUOTE]


the same things could be said about any restaurant we all eat at. And yet how many of us worry about that?

After my granddaughter caught lice and giardia at school, I worry about eating out or anyone here who doesn't have good conditions or could have caught certain things in the area they came from. My health is still impacted from catching that crap almost three years ago. I wonder if the woman had the baby here or if she had it in Brazil?

 

[BhamMama]

I think she's been here since 2005 and the baby was born here. She's wanting to go home to have help. She did come on a visa to begin with. Maybe she got into some money trouble and couldn't afford to go home or goodness knows what happened.

I think it's silly that they are holding her when she has tickets.

 

[GlitchWizard]

After my granddaughter caught lice and giardia at school, I worry about eating out or anyone here who doesn't have good conditions or could have caught certain things in the area they came from. My health is still impacted from catching that crap almost three years ago. I wonder if the woman had the baby here or if she had it in Brazil?

I totally feel for your granddaughter! When my aunt moved next to me and got a dozen horses, the impact on my well in Indiana was to cause girardia in my homeschool of six kids! I'm telling you, I'd never heard of girardia before - but when you have such a horrendous mess as the symptoms of that cause - pure torture to kids, especially the older ones who are embarassed by the "accidents" - it makes you cry. I had to replace my entire well, disinfect every surface area of everything and everyone had to just about bathe several times a day to clear it out.
*sigh*

Poor granddaughter.