College Athlete Charged With Killing Baby
ERIE, Pa. (Sept. 18) - A Mercyhurst College volleyball player was charged Tuesday with killing the baby she secretly gave birth to in her campus apartment bathroom.
Teri Rhodes hid the pregnancy from friends and teammates, told a doctor two days before the Aug. 12 birth that she didn't think she was pregnant and did Internet research on topics including "what can kill a fetus," Erie police said.
After giving birth, the 18-year-old Rhodes put the newborn in a plastic bag and left it on the floor of a bathtub as she showered, according to the criminal complaint.
Among other counts, Rhodes was charged with homicide, abusing a corpse and concealing the death of a child. Her attorney, Philip Friedman, declined to comment.
She has been charged, I am happy to report that.
However, this brings up other issues in my mind:
1) Safe Haven Laws - yeah, they make perfect sense in order to prevent murdered babies (since women have been taught that they do not have to be responsible, her body her choice, etc...) but where are the Safe Haven laws for daddy?Where is the time period where daddy can shake off the responsibility with no questions asked?
2) So she killed the baby right after birth, that made it illegal. However, if she had killed the baby before birth (just a matter of minutes) it would have been legal. Intentional miscarriage perhaps.
These things really bother the piss out of me. Now, I am going to the bathroom.
