Pondering the Local News

This has nothing to do with low carb, but it's something that has disturbed our little town for 15 years, and we're hoping there is some closure soon.

In 1993 a local rancher found the body of a baby girl in a plastic garbage bag. A newborn. The town wept for that baby, donated money for her funeral and burial, talked about how her mother could just throw her away.

They took fingerprints off the bag, but no matches, so they were put into the state system. Then four years ago they got a match. The woman denied having any connection, but agreed to a DNA test, which showed that she was, indeed, the mother. Her counsel is saying that the baby was stillborn. So it would be a misdemeanor. This still has not gone to trial, there have been various delays. We just wish there would be a ruling so this town can put some closure on this horrid event.

Just think, if this child had lived, she would be 15 years old now. A young lady in the bloom of youth, perhaps with aspirations of becoming a doctor, or a teacher, an astronaut, or, if she wanted, to be a kind a loving mother.

Right now I don't care if that baby was stillborn, her mother had no right to throw her body away as if it was just garbage. She deserved a decent burial. And, due to the kind and loving people in my little town, she got just that. So much love and affection went out to that poor little girl, but, sadly, after she was gone. How many people would have given up fortunes to have the opportunity to raise a child such as she might have been.