In the News.

I think I'll post a news article once a week and give my thoughts on it.
Eh...we'll see how long that lasts anyway.


Mom who killed baby writes for mercy
Woman, now 22, hid pregnancy until giving birth at 15

Thursday, February 2, 2006; Posted: 3:34 p.m. EST (20:34 GMT)


Cleveland (Ohio)
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- A woman appealed for leniency for killing her newborn baby and dumping him in a flooded quarry, saying she cannot forgive herself for what she did as a teenage mother.

"It is horrifying to think my own child is not here because of my actions and decisions," Jessica Coleman, 22, said in a letter asking Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Edward Zaleski for probation instead of prison time, The Plain Dealer newspaper reported Thursday.

"Forgiving myself is something I may never be able to do."

She and ex-boyfriend Thomas Truelson Jr., 25, face sentencing Monday.

Coleman, who pleaded guilty to seven charges including involuntary manslaughter, faces up to 24 years. Truelson faces up to 11 years on his guilty plea to three charges including gross abuse of a corpse.

Coleman was a 15-year-old high school student in suburban Cleveland when she gave birth in 1999 after concealing the pregnancy from family and friends. Panicked, she stabbed the baby boy and bashed his head.

Truelson, then her boyfriend and a college student, helped her dispose of the body in a quarry in Lorain County, west of Cleveland.

In her letter, Coleman said she did not know she was pregnant until a couple of months into the pregnancy. Truelson, who she says is the father, expected her to miscarry, she said.

"When he came home, he would stand on my stomach to prevent me from showing, which was painful and disgusts me now to think I let it happen," she wrote.

Neal Jamison, Truelson's attorney, said he has never heard that version of events. "We deny that ever took place."

The body was found by recreational divers in July 1999. The infant, dubbed Baby Boy Hope, had several broken facial bones and had been stabbed, according to the coroner.

There was a break in the case last year when Coleman told a boyfriend about the baby, according to the Lorain County sheriff's department. The boyfriend told a friend and two family members who contacted authorities.



Hmm. Guess abortion wasn't the cure-all pill we were hoping for, eh?

I never bought that, anyway. I know there are much bigger forces than "Women's Choice" behind abortion.

By now we all should know how babies are made. If you don't want one, don't participate in making one.

Simple as.