GUILTY TN - Lindsey Lowe charged in deaths of newborn twins, Hendersonville, 2011 *guilty*

[LunaticFringe]

I'm sort of on the fence about her parents. One of the neighbors said that they suspected she was pregnant (and that makes perfect sense with her carrying around 10-12 pounds of baby), but her parents didn't notice anything? Or maybe they did and she lied very effectively about why she was gaining weight. Normally, I would say that her parents had to know, but in this case, her father did call 911 immediately after finding the baby, even though he had to know that it had come from his daughter, who obviously hadn't been being very honest with them. So, I will give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

As for how she could have gone about her day as if nothing were physically wrong, that I can understand. I'm one of those women that has to be sedated or restrained if they really want me in bed after delivery. All of my kids have wanted, loved, and cared for (not to mention born in hospitals and not smothered to death) and even I have a moment of absolute euphoria upon realizing that I can see my feet again and that my body belongs to me again. That rush may have carried her through enough to go to work and act like everything was fine.

I pity her father, the poor guy. He probably suspected that something was up, and was giving her time to bring it to them in her own way, and then discovering the baby in the basket...he had to know what she had done. That will never go away for him.

I don't understand the parents not knowing either.She is kind of short and stocky in her photos on facebook but you would def know that she was pregnant I would think.She was carrying twins.I guess she was seriously trying to conceal it at home...yet a neighbor knew it.I'd like to know what her co-workers thought or friends.

 

[Trident]

OMG as the mother of twin boys, this kills me.. I'd love to get my hands on her.
I hope she spends the rest of her life in prison.
I resent her being called a "young mother" i was thinking 14,15 yrs old.
I had 3 kids UNDER the age of 2 (newborn twins and a 20 month old ) at the age of 21.

I don't buy that she hid a twin pregnancy either, maybe they were micro preemies, i gave birth at 32 weeks and was soooo huge I could barely wipe my own behind, and could NOT even tiw my own shoes and my babies were only 3 lbs each.

I find it hard to believe she hid her twin pregnancy also. At 3 months prego with twin boys, all my bottons popped. At 7 months, I needed a wheel barrow to hold my stomach - everyone thought I was due immediately if not yesterday.

For the rest of it, though, I'm not sure what was going through her head. I have to hold judgment for a bit.

 

[Trident]

It kills me it really does. If she successfully hid her pregnancy and gave birth, she should have been able to take the babies somewhere to comply with the safe haven laws. She could have turned the babies over easily and no one would have been the wiser. And the babies could have been safe and other families would have been happy to have them.

I used to feel a little sorry for the mothers who hid the pregnancies and then killed the baby. If only because they felt they had to go to such an extent to hide their pregnancies. They would have had to have been under such a lot of emotional pressure.

But I no longer feel so sorry for them. With the safe haven laws they could so easily hide the birth and turn the babies over and no one would be the wiser. But it seems that still isn't good enough. They seem to have a compulsion to kill the babies.

I don't believe every state has a safe haven law, and if they do, I don't believe many people know about it. We cannot compare everyone to ourselves, who spend a lot of time researching, to the average citizen.

My opinion only

 

[Trident]

I'm horrified by child murder. I am also horrified by those who clamor for this young woman's blood without knowing her circumstances. To me, it isn't enough to say people would have loved to adopt these babies - young women are not baby factories for those who cannot have children, I think this is selfish. My best friend can't have children, but she has never turned on anyone else because her needs weren't fulfilled; she turned to her career and made a success of it.

I am a mother of 6, and I've had a few thoughts of getting rid of the whole bunch, but I didn't 'cause I was raised with a conscience - I often got a good smack - which seems to be anathema to many on the WS boards, but it did give me the understanding of right and wrong to keep my kiddies housed, fed, and breathing.

Yeah, I think it odious for a woman to kill her babies, but I also think it odious for anyone to condemn someone else until you have walked a bit in their shoes, gotten into their minds, understood their hopes and fears. No one knows the mind and hearts of another.

Don't mean to offend, but sometimes I need to vent against ALL the wrongs I see.

 

[curioussleuth]

I live in H'ville and this story has hit me hard. I have a friend who went to HS with her. She comes from a great and supportive famiy. I don't know why she felt she had to hide the pregnancy...and also why she felt the need to kill those babies instead of loading them up in the car and getting them to somewhere safe. I suppose this may have ended differently if she had delivered while her family was not home. I know they are doing a mental evaluation on her.

 

[southern_scout]

I live here, too, and am friends with one of her family members. They really appeared to be the "All American family" that you are seeing in her facebook pictures and elsewhere. They are just as baffled and hurt and angry as the rest of us are. From what I hear, they are simply in shock. This town is a weird place, I grew up here and joke to my non-local friends that moving back here has been slightly akin to moving to Stepford. Very religious, very conservative, very much "Hi! Nice to meet you, what church do you go to?" kind of place. Not saying that I know her family condemns sex before marriage or out of wedlock pregnancy, but in my mind, it's not out of the realm that that could be the case. The "keeping up appearances" mentality is very, very strong here.

This being said, we do have Safe Haven laws. A fire department is less than a mile from her house. The hospital is less than five. I just do not understand any of this.

 

[mysteriew]

I live here, too, and am friends with one of her family members. They really appeared to be the "All American family" that you are seeing in her facebook pictures and elsewhere. They are just as baffled and hurt and angry as the rest of us are. From what I hear, they are simply in shock. This town is a weird place, I grew up here and joke to my non-local friends that moving back here has been slightly akin to moving to Stepford. Very religious, very conservative, very much "Hi! Nice to meet you, what church do you go to?" kind of place. Not saying that I know her family condemns sex before marriage or out of wedlock pregnancy, but in my mind, it's not out of the realm that that could be the case. The "keeping up appearances" mentality is very, very strong here.

This being said, we do have Safe Haven laws. A fire department is less than a mile from her house. The hospital is less than five. I just do not understand any of this.

That small town friendliness could have actually worked against the safe haven laws. If she had dropped the babies off at the firehouse for example, it would have caused a stir. And would have gotten back to her family. Same with the hospital. Still she could have taken them to another community and done it.

 

[Trident]

That small town friendliness could have actually worked against the safe haven laws. If she had dropped the babies off at the firehouse for example, it would have caused a stir. And would have gotten back to her family. Same with the hospital. Still she could have taken them to another community and done it.

Very true, IF she even knew about it.

 

[southern_scout]

Good observation that I hadn't put together, but is completely plausible.

 

[mrsu]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this? I just saw this on HLN. How horrendous. A 25 YEAR OLD trying to hide this from her parents? WTH is wrong with people. I could see a 15 year old, but a 25 year old?? And I will never understand how people "hide" their pregnancies, especially with twins. Ugh. :sick:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/15/tennessee-mother-tells-police-hid-pregnancy-smothered-newborns/

A young mother charged with murder has told police she hid her pregnancy, gave birth to twin sons at her family's home and killed the infants by smothering their cries so her parents wouldn't hear them.

Police in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville arrested Lindsey Lowe, 25, on Wednesday after her father discovered one baby's body in a laundry basket.

According to a police affidavit, the young mother said she didn't tell her family she was pregnant, but believes she got pregnant in January and never visited a doctor. Police said on Thursday they were trying to identify the father of the twins.

More at link...

 

[JeannieC]

Another big question is, "Who is the father". That could be a big factor in her not telling and in her wanting to hide the pregnancy.

I can't imagine her parents not knowing or suspecting she was pregnant unless her weight had always gone up and down. Some women gain all over and others show straight in front.

 

[Truthful Lies]

I was just reading about this...how freaking awful. I will say, I question why she put one of the baby's bodies in a laundry basket in her room and left him there to be found. Now I'm questioning her mental capacities - you'd think she'd remove the bodies before they were found. And she works in a peds dental office? Wow =( So very sad.

 

[Truthful Lies]

It just blows my mind that she could hold her hand over the babies mouths for a "few minutes"!!! I just...wow. And to do it twice?? Wow.

 

[Hopeful One]

I'm always amazed at the disgustingly cruel things human beings are capable of. But then when it's a mother, killing her own children, my brain can't accept it. I just do not understand...

 

[JeannieC]

It just blows my mind that she could hold her hand over the babies mouths for a "few minutes"!!! I just...wow. And to do it twice?? Wow.

I would want to hold them close. I just can't imagine this. I see another trial calling it Post Partum or some other new term they come up with. Maybe say she's bi-polar and it was aggrevated by the pregnancy. Or was so afraid of her parents...........

Nothing can bring those 2 beautiful babies back and nothing she can say can justify her actions. She is not a child. moo

 

[oh_gal]

Just terrible. There are so many people who would have loved to have had those babies. So, so sad. Good for her dad.

 

[angeleleven]

This mother should get the death penalty. She's so selfish and evil. So many people (including myself) would loved to have the chance to take care of these twins. This is very upsetting to me.

I think JVM or one of the programs is suppose to cover this tonight.

 

[Annie]

This makes me cry. Those two little boys should have been welcomed into the world with smiling faces, happy tears, hugs, kisses and warm blankets. How horrible that their first feeling was hitting a cold, hard, water filled toilet and then having the life squeezed out of them. How could she do that, no matter what her parents might have said. My feeling is that the parents might have been shocked at first, but would have gotten in there getting everything ready to welcome their new grandbabies. I have seen that happen so many times.

 

[Nefriahaia]

...and she works at a pediatric dental office.

Hopefully she does not work there any more and the only other jobs she will EVER have are in the prison laundry or scrubbing the floors on Death Row.

 

[Beyond Belief]

There's something wrong with this picture. Endure labor by yourself, then murder two babies, This is not something a sane person would do. Whatever they decide to do with her I hope they keep her locked up someplace for a long time.