TX - Woman flushes newborn baby down toilet in Whataburger bathroom - Dec. 19, 2024

[ChatteringBirds]

I have seen people get pulled out of bathrooms..Overdoses are very common in public restrooms . So what happens in my line of work is 911 gts called 2 officers and a fire truck show up first then off to jail or rescue is requested. They pry the door off the hinges and in about 20 mintues it is back to normal. Pretty routine. So much so that people who are around often don't know anything is happening.

How do the employees get clued-in that someone has overdosed in the bathroom?

I recall a case where a teenage girl gave birth in the school bathroom during a dance. She did similar to the baby. No one was calling the school incompetent and negligent.

 

[MissMalowe]

IMO:
Whoever oversaw the decisions during the 4 hrs that MS was in their restaurant was incompetent and negligent.
They knew that MS loitered for 2 hours before entering the bathroom.
Also assuming that there was more than one bathroom stall unless the manager locked the bathroom door or positioned an employee in the bathroom during the 2 hrs that MS was in the stall and during her making strange noises they didn't know if the woman who locked herself in the stall for 2 hours wasn't a danger to their customers who also used the bathroom during that time period.
Even if there was an employee stationed in the bathroom (highly unlikely) that person also could have been in danger.

This is another example of why I'm confused. Some (like yourself) are claiming they should have called police sooner because her locking herself in the bathroom and making noises = a possible threat to other patrons using the bathroom.

And at the same time, others are giving them a hard time for calling police instead of an ambulance.

 

[Soulmagent]

How do the employees get clued-in that someone has overdosed in the bathroom?

I recall a case where a teenage girl gave birth in the school bathroom during a dance. She did similar to the baby. No one was calling the school incompetent and negligent.

Honestly, The only reason I have been alerted to such ,is because of alert consumers. Those alert people save soul's. IMO

 

[Tower]

IMO:
Whoever oversaw the decisions during the 4 hrs that MS was in their restaurant was incompetent and negligent.
They knew that MS loitered for 2 hours before entering the bathroom.
Also assuming that there was more than one bathroom stall unless the manager locked the bathroom door or positioned an employee in the bathroom during the 2 hrs that MS was in the stall and during her making strange noises they didn't know if the woman who locked herself in the stall for 2 hours wasn't a danger to their customers who also used the bathroom during that time period.
Even if there was an employee stationed in the bathroom (highly unlikely) that person also could have been in danger.

Totally disagree. These employees were working. Their primary job description is not to monitor the bathrooms or to triage and assess the medical status of nearby people who likely were not even their customers. If they offered water and asked if she needed help, she may have said she was fine to avoid being kicked out or arrested. Can you imagine the pain she was in? I would say anything to just get people to leave and keep them from kicking me out.

I posted upthread and I will say it again: they may have chosen not to call first responders because she said she was okay and they wanted to give her privacy and and chance to recover. The employees’ and manager’s focus is preparing food and serving customers. In distant third or fourth place, they should make sure the woman didn’t need anything and did not present a risk to others. We have zero evidence a woman in labor was threatening to anyone at any time.

There is no evidence at all of negligence nor incompetence. In many ways, their response could be considered compassionate: water, privacy, safety, shelter, checking in on her. No one could possible guess she was delivering a baby.

Jmo

 

[CrimeDawg123]

I don't know at all this woman's situation that led her to the Whataburger bathroom that day. But here is some related information about why some Texas women are confused and afraid to seek care, and sometimes are getting turned away when they do. It's awful in Texas right now.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

www.propublica.org

 

[shetalksinstereo]

This is another example of why I'm confused. Some (like yourself) are claiming they should have called police sooner because her locking herself in the bathroom and making noises = a possible threat to other patrons using the bathroom.

And at the same time, others are giving them a hard time for calling police instead of an ambulance.

I was visiting Niagara Falls with my family and was in my late 20s. I started getting stomach cramps and had to go to the bathroom and got really sick. I was not pregnant, it was just really bad diarrhea. It was a very small bathroom for being at a tourist site, maybe six stalls or something? I was trying to be as quiet as I could because I was so embarrassed. I would have literally died if an ambulance had showed up!! Stuff happens in bathrooms that isn't criminal.

 

[tlcya]

Baby Mary, found in a Whataburger bathroom, to be laid to rest Friday

the baby has now been named Mary and will be given a funeral by Eagle’s Flight Advocacy and Outreach.

The organization gives a final resting place to abandoned and abused babies, toddlers and children.
‘Baby Mary’ found in Whataburger toilet will be given proper burial

the baby was laid to rest on January 24th

 

[MsMarple]

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[Stunned]

Baby Mary, found in a Whataburger bathroom, to be laid to rest Friday

the baby has now been named Mary and will be given a funeral by Eagle’s Flight Advocacy and Outreach.

The organization gives a final resting place to abandoned and abused babies, toddlers and children.
‘Baby Mary’ found in Whataburger toilet will be given proper burial

the baby was laid to rest on January 24th

What a wonderful organization, how sad they have to exist.