RE: Baby Doe - Day 488: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: baby
Quite intriguing. Cold cases must be a reservoir of stories begging to be told.
In venezuela some conservative estimates put the percentage of unsolved cases around 95%
That's a lot of criminals walking among us.
Baby killers, ironically, tend to be caught "easily". They are usually desperate poor mothers who do not think they can provide for an additional mouth or just girls who do not want to run the best years of their lives.
I agree with you that facts outdo fictions sometimes and we don't need to fabricate anything. I know cases of girls who hid their pregnancies until the very moment they were deliverying their babies.
I can only imagine what a mother would think when she gets to the hospital because her precious child is allegedly having her apendix removed and finds out she is a grandmother.
I even have the most curious case in the family. One aunt-in-law delivered a baby when she was in her 50s. She had had a big belly for ten years then, part obesity, part family genes. She learned she had a baby when they checked her for an alleged stomach ache. She named her Milagros (miracle).
Milagros - healthy, I presume, despite a mother in her 50s who was unaware her "stomach ache" was a baby - what an amazing story! I met a woman who said she was kicked out of basic training for being seven months along and she had NO IDEA she was pregnant - even though she had a son at home and should have known - but this time she'd lost weight, not gained, and didn't have morning sickness or other symptoms that go with the territory. It blew my mind that in this day and age in America, a woman could fail to know she was carrying a baby at seven months along. I met her last year while donating blood. As a mother of three, I cannot even fathom not knowing there's a baby inside... but I also cannot imagine the despair that drives some mothers to kill their babies. Thanks for commenting, @hlezama, and sharing that anecdote!