[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

You didn't kill a child though.

We think of teenagers as these idiots. I'm sorry, but when I was a teenager I knew enuf to not kill babies...

Teenagers know that killing a BABY is WRONG. They may have a lot of crazy hormones, and not make great decisions, but we are talking about KILLING a BABY.

To imply that teenagers don't know that killing a baby is wrong, i'm sorry, i don't buy it. You've totally lost me.

Well, first off, It doesn't say anywhere in that snippet of information that she killed the baby, secondly it doesn't say that she carried the baby full term either so you are only assuming that she'd hidden it for 9 months. Thirdly, my original point was in defence of the mother not what the girl did or didn't do to the baby after it was born, we quite clearly don 't know what happened there.

[Zippy]

I suspect stuff like this is far more common than we think.

[tmi]

I hid my pregnancy for eight months and my hubbie didnt even notice he just thought I was getting a bit chubby. I had post natal on the first and really frightening times, so didnt want to put my family through the worries, stupid in hindside but I did, the mid -wife wasnt to pleased. So could have hid the pregnancy with baggy clothes, people at that age go thorugh growing phases out and up.

I really feel for the girl, we dont know the circumstances.