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[wendykh]

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO97132/

Short version:
16 year old mom "confesses" (without lawyer or her mother) to smothering her 1 year old. Is currently pregnant with number 2. Dad of number 2 was in room sleeping and heard nothing.

What annoys me:
The final paragraph reads:
According to the Boston Globe, Truong was involved with another incident involving the death of an infant earlier this decade. In 2000, Truong was babysitting her brother when he died in his crib. That baby's death was ruled Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

She would have been 8 years old. Possibly only 7.
Children that young are NOT babysitters. In fact I don't know anywhere in the US where it's legal to leave them alone at that age, let alone in charge of another child!
The article's implication she was responsible is unconscionable.

Comments

[thepersona.livejournal.com]

And 2000 is not earlier this decade. It's last decade.

[misshapen-fro.livejournal.com]

Well, if she smothered her brother at 7 or 8, I think she'd be partially responsible. That's old enough to know not to do that. But not old enough to be babysitting, and I seriously doubt that she actually killed her brother. It doesn't really sound relevant and probably shouldn't have been brought up in the article.

[shortyellowcape.livejournal.com]

And this came from my local news >.>

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

Your football team could stop sucking, now that would be news I'd like! :-D