"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
NAPLES — It was a girl.
Doctors removed the dead fetus from Joan Laurel Small on Thursday, a day after her release from the Collier County jail.
The 22-year-old mother cradled baby “Elena Laurel.” Nurses cut a lock of the baby’s hair for a keepsake.
“They cleaned her up and allowed her to hold her,” said Small’s mother, Jennifer Graeber of New Jersey. “The hospital is making her a little remembrance book. They’re putting in a lock of the baby’s hair.”
Graeber said when her daughter arrived at The Birth Place at NCH North Naples Hospital, her blood-pressure had risen and she had a fever.
“That’s the beginning signs of septic shock,” Graeber said of leaving a dead fetus inside a mother.
Because the baby had been left in her womb more than a day, she said, Small could not deliver the baby, but had to undergo a C-section.
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She’d been held since Dec. 22 after she violated probation by returning home after her nightly 10 p.m. curfew. Small said she’d been attending a parenting class in Naples and couldn’t get a ride home; she has no car. Records show the probation violation involved a 2007 drug charge; an adjudication of guilt was withheld. It’s her only criminal conviction and records show it occurred when she was caught with drugs in the car of her former husband, Ken Enright Small, during a traffic stop; his record includes drug convictions.ock,” Graeber said of leaving a dead fetus inside a mother.
Labels: casualties of conservative "values", drug war, just another outrage, misogyny
It's also worth noting that Collier County observes a "zero tolerance" policy for probation violators, ever since Carlie Brucia was murdered by Joseph Smith while he was out on bond for a probation violation.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/15/news_pf/Perspective/Judgment_calls.shtml
And we wonder why the jails are overcrowded hellholes and the criminal justice system has lost all credibility.