Babies Lives Matter!
https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/closing-arguments-jury-deliberation-expected-in-alexis-avila-child-abuse-trial/
Not related to the current political drama. I've been following the story of a Hobbs, New Mexico teen mother who tossed her newborn into a trash dumpster last year January. Surveillance cameras caught the horrible crime on camera which made it easy for law enforcement to arrest the teen mother. If you know the desert, the winters in the desert are more than bone chilling.
After she tossed the trash bag with her newborn baby into the dumpster, several hours had passed. Three scavenger people rummaging through the bin heard the infant crying. All three scavengers desperately searched the bin and it's contents and they found the baby. They called 911 and cared for the baby until first responders came. The baby survived.
The teen father had no idea his girlfriend was pregnant and as the story unfolded, I believe him to be telling the truth on that. The baby is living with the teen father and his family. She claimed that she didn't realize she was pregnant and when she had the baby, she was at her home. She claimed to not remember anything of what she did after the baby was born, that she blacked out.
I'm not trying to position myself in judgement over her. If I had been on that jury, I would have asked these questions of her:
1. What frightened you so much that you felt you had no where to turn for assistance?
2. Knowing you had a living breathing baby, how could you place him in a trash bag with trash in it and hurl the bag into a trash dumpster?
3. Do you value life in general?
Her sentencing is coming up May 1st.
Do I believe that she should be in jail, yes. With that said, everyone has a soul that needs redemption. We all have fallen short and are all sinners. It is my sincere hope that while the teen mother is in prison that she receive much needed counseling and genuine Christian intervention to help guide her.
I pray that somehow there be some much needed healing for all parties concerned. If Jesus could reform the murderous Saul of Tarsus (turned into Apostle Paul), there is hope for the teen mother and every sinner.