Many people still don't have insurance and are so terrified of running up thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt that their minds are just hard wired not to call an ambulance or go to a doctor unless they're actually dying (which is when she went). An ambulance ride alone can cost $1000.00.

Maybe she couldn't afford to pay the ambulance bill. Maybe she was worried the father would find out about the baby if she went to the hospital. Maybe she didn't realize the severity of the crime because she is uneducated. Maybe she doesn't trust the system because of her economic status and/or race. Maybe she just…

So in your mind, what crime did she commit? Improperly disposing of a dead fetus? You think that deserves jail time?

And yet here you are, Judgement Central, and you seem to have caught the express. 'This girl definitely deserves some jail time' is patronising bullshit - she's 33, not a girl.

In all fairness to the doctor, there could have been a live baby out there somewhere who needed medical attention. A doctor can hardly not report that.

Thirty years for delivering a dead baby? As if delivering a dead baby wasn't bad enough. Her only crime was putting a biohazard in a dumpster.

30 goddamned years? Someone could've murdered HER and gotten less jail time than that!

/sadly resets the "DAYS WITHOUT AN EMBARRASSING STORY ABOUT MY HOME STATE" counter to zero

I'm with you here.

We're gamers. We solve puzzles, figure stuff out, and help people (albeit virtual) on a regular basis. I kind of wish someone with a louder voice (Kotaku, IGN, heck, even Gamespot) would open up a legit discussion about what we as a collective people can do to put a stop to this and improve the…

Imprisoning them would cost the taxpayer even more money, just fine them for the cost of the operation, which probably gets into the 10s of thousands of dollars.

Imprisonment for life, regardless of age, should be the result of this. It's an act of terrorism.

It was a co-sleeping death that almost certainly wouldn't have met the burden of proof for a murder conviction.

That's like saying it's okay for a prosecutor to go to someone accused of theft and offer them a plea bargain with no jail time as long as they agreed to have their hands cut off as punishment.

No. No it is not.

I have no doubt there are people who should not be having any(more) children, but I'd love to see the stats on how often this option is offered to men. Prolly never?

It says that she was charged with neglect after the baby died mysteriously. I think if she murdered the baby out right they would say exactly what she did.

So you're cool with the government surgically altering people's bodies without their consent?

I understand how to some, this seems entirely logical. Decades of mental illness, mysterious death of a baby, and an easy way to make sure it never happens again. But we should learn from death penalty cases that government can't be trusted to make these decisions. Over time they will over reach and people will be…

Behold:

Has this actually been confirmed by Angelina or Brad, or is it just a rumor? And is this child maybe a bit young to be officially considered trans/queer/non-gender-confirming? Maybe she is, or maybe she's just going through a phase like a lot of kids do.