Huh, well at least she told the truth and can now get clean and start all over in 4 years. Well done!

I agree with both of the above comments. However, Blake, it's quite possible she will not serve the full four years. With good behavior she could be paroled sooner.

It takes a lot of courage to say to the judge "this won't help me, I need to go to prison." That woman is a brave one, and good luck to her when she's out.

needs and deserves quality of life ? are you planning on handing it to her on a silver tray ? she can figure it out for herself when she gets out of jail. In the mean time, I would have her sterilized. She does not need to procreate her defective genes any further. Too many of these already. Jail is a good place for her. She will be fed and cared for at tax payers expenses while she gets a chance to learn a trade or further her education. No wonder she wants to go to jail. She should want to care for her child, but she does not have that nurturing instinct. What a pitiful human being.

I would have her sterilized.

Yeah, good thing you can't do that.

Because we all know how good the government is deciding who needs to be sterilized or not.

/rolls eyes

Alumette, Your just as pitiful with your way of speaking about another person. You act as though you have the compassion of a rock. You have no idea what this young Girl has been through in her life.

If we look at our population explosion and dwindling supplies, it would not hurt to sterilize all people on welfare who have had one child already. The rest would have to show they can care for these kids for the next fifty years. China did it but it was too little too late. They got rid of all the girls....balance there, right ? considering their ethics, I can see why they have problems....but why worry about them ? we have our hands full here in the US.

Alumette, you're an idiot. Thanks for playing.

Mr. or Mrs. Alumette:

I am forever grateful and thankful that it wasn't you that died for all of our sins. You are pretty judgmental about this woman. She obviously is not healthy mentally and she needs help. Who gives a damn who pays for it, be it the tax payers or her family SHE NEEDS IT! Mental illness is a true illness just like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. People like you judge others UNTIL something like this happens to them or their family...Saying she needed to be sterilized is a bit much and way over the top!

To answer your questions: if I had it to give to her I would give her a second chance at life and a quality of life on that silver platter you so eloquently described...because that is what every human being deserves no matter their race, age, religious background, socioeconomic status, etc...be careful what you say about others for you may cry out loud for the very thing you shunned away!

Good luck to you and best wishes.

it would not hurt to sterilize all people on welfare who have had one child already.

I think it might hurt the people who are on welfare and want to have another child. I mean, it's not like people ever get off welfare right? Oh wait--

Maybe next on your list of brilliant policy ideas: FORCED ABORTION

I don't want to live in your America if that's your idea of what our society should be like, and personally I hope people like you never get in a position to implement these kinds of disturbing policies.

This young lady had the courage to stand up for herself in what she new to be the best thing for her. Now if only the prison system is clean enough to be drug free. I hope she gets a really good opportunity and can start a clean, long life once she's out.

Wow Alumette.

As someone who became pregnant young (and no I was never a drug user, seller, or anything of the sort) and utilized the system to get back on my feet, that actually kind of stings. Normally I don't pay attention to the idiotic comments made about welfare users. I'm someone who did work her behind off and I am a darn good mother. I made the best of the situation I was in and my son is very well taken care of. I would love to eventually have more children once I'm married. How dare you group everyone into the same judgmental stereotype.

Well that was a step in the right direction for her, hope she makes it and can turn her life around.

Sometimes it gets difficult to see the individuals who are caught up in society's big problems...difficult to see the trees through the forest as they say..."drug addict tries to sell baby for $25 in front of wal-mart..."it shocks us all...as it should...it's easy to think 'that must be a monster'...but here we see a real person...and the sympathy and empathy can and does show...this woman needs and has asked for help...and has been honest enough to admit that prison may be the only way she can redeem herself...I have high hopes that she will eventually come out of this...be the person she was born to be...and lead a fulfilling and productive life...for those of you who commented so negatively to this story...maybe it's you who are hopelessly lost...

@alummet...Samantha Tomasini has a better chance of being redeemed than you'll ever have...I believe you may be permanently broken

If the Founders could even pretend to grasp the implications of this case, which I doubt, I wonder how they would react?

Send me to jail, says woman once of accused to trying to sell baby outside of Walmart......Really? They Can't even use proper grammar in the headline now? And I am unemployed ? I would like a proofreading job...please.....

Are some of you folks really giving this person credit and compassion for "being honest" ??

She tried to sell her kid for F's sake!

" Dat cocaine it's a hell of a drug " My heart goes out to the kid. By the way, there are drugs in prison ! If she's goin there to stay away from drugs, she messed up real bad !

Heavy drug use will do that to a person.

Are some of you folks really using 'brave' and 'courageous' to depict this chck? Seriously, are you people for reals, what a bunch fools. She only wanted jail cause it was easier than trying. Brave and courageous should be reserved for those parents who does the right thing everyday, by providing for their kids, rasing them properly, and even when things go south they still face adversity and try.

She only wanted jail cause it was easier than trying.

You obviously have never been to prison.

Brave and courageous should be reserved for those parents who does the right thing everyday, by providing for their kids, rasing them properly, and even when things go south they still face adversity and try.

First of all, it's parents who 'do' the right thing everyday, 'raising' them properly, etc. Secondly, you have no idea how difficult it is being addicted to drugs. Saying 'just lock me up so I can't even be tempted' takes a lot when people have been known to do anything for that next high.

FactOfTheMatter

Are you for reals. Can't argue the main point so use a diversion to gramatical mistakes. Please, that is weak. Obviously, I have never been to prision, have you? If so, it tells a lot about who you are. If not, you just lost all credibility.

"Secondly, you have no idea how difficult it is being addicted to drugs."

You are right, but go ahead blame the drugs. Who cares about personal responisbility, and making the tough choices. Do you really think jail is drug free? If so, you are more niave than you sound.

Besides, you got it backwards, it's easy being addicted to drugs, difficult to stop using drugs. But if that is the only difficult thing in your life, you have no idea what is difficult.

Nice try at making execuses.

I is the of the idea to that the headline is write by a mooron. Sorry could not get me the past the writting skills.

Sure, send her to prison. That way she will get THREE HOTS and A COT at taxpayers' expense. Then I wonder what welfare benefits her bf will apply for. Maybe the head of the prison will not allow visits from him. Then he'll have to find another itch to scratch. She'll find her a gf/lover in the "crossbar hotel".

This is an incedibly sad story - on the level with Greek tragedy. A good investigative journalist (if there are any left on the planet) could make a very compelling story with this material. (e.g. "In Cold Blood"). I hope the baby makes it to a better and happy life.

Obviously, I have never been to prision, have you?

Actually I have been incarcerated.

You are right, but go ahead blame the drugs.

Right because criminalizing drugs has worked out well so far.

Do you really think jail is drug free?

And do you really think if you get caught they just take it away and that's all? No, you get thrown into isolation, if you're lucky you might get to go to treatment.

I'm sure it makes you feel great to judge other people like that since you yourself aren't addicted to drugs, but all I know is that we have a ton of people in prison primarily for drugs and it's not like the recidivism rate is going down at all. So following your own advice we might as well just dig a pit and keep throwing money into it.

Rubie:: OK, are YOU going to take the gal in when she gets out of prison and give her a second chance? Not everyone who has a drug problem and is put in prison gets clean for the rest of their lives. I have seen where some get out and a short time later are picked up for a second time-- then they get out and winds up back in prison for a third time. Not everyone WANTS to clean up! For some it is something they look forward to getting out of prison-- not to make something of themselves.

She'd sell her baby for a fix? What about the next fix? Steal? Rob an elderly woman for her next fix?

Susie-2759697

I would rather see her sell her baby for a fix if that is the the type of person she is, rather than to have the child grow up in her @!$%#ed up home.

But I would much rather we give free birth control to the masses, and reduce the next generation of welfare recipients. We are breeding poor, and it needs to stop.

John:: Would birth control do any good other than to prevent another brat-- that is, if she stays on the pill. Sell her baby will only take care of one fix. Next time she wants a fix there is no telling what she'll do.

And just what could birth control pills do for her in the here and now? She'd forget to take pills and get knocked up again-- then what.

Forced sterilization would do wonders for our society. I will try to explain.

Every middle income and well off couple have 2.2 children that they will most likely raise to be motivated to do well for themselves. Many low income have 5-6 by multiple partners that never pay the bills, we do. Extrapolate that over ten generations. It needs to stop, one way or another.

I don't agree with imposing on others civil liberties, but maybe society should start considering them unfit which changes the whole legal argument. We can't have 2.2 taxpayers born to every 5 users and think we can survive as a country.

Rubie McKinney

Not only do you provide great insight, you are so purrrty too!

This is why birth control show be free!!! There are people who should never pro-create.

Unlock what is bugging her to know true freedom, it the called the poisoner of minds & bodies, white dope.

DKJ, it centers in the mind, nobody wakes up one day and says hey!! It would be really cool to be a drug addict or an alcoholic, yes, that's what I want! It centers in the mind and be thankful you don't know what you are talking about...........

DaughterofAVeteran:: Birth control pills will only take care of it IF she takes them. If people should never procreate there should be something done to permanently take care of it. Veterinarians know how to do it!

At 22 she stopped being a kid four years ago. She is a classic example of the consummate victim. Too lazy to do the difficult things that she knows she needs to, so let someone else pay for her "treatment" and force her to complete a program. She knows she will get food, housing, and health care while in and not have to go through the difficulty of making herself get treatment.

This story absolutely breaks my heart. Every knows Walmart is no place to sell a baby!

Note to self: Stop using heroin as a treatment for meth addiction.

Stop using methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction too?

Shasha, that is so cruel.

Could've fetched a higher price and better customer service at Target.

Miryn:: You must agree with DingleB that Target is the better place-- no comment from you about that post.

At 22, I had one child and was pregnant with the second. My (now EX) husband beat me everyday. He was a monster.

I worked a full-time job. It was incredibly hard. I NEVER used one drug, ever. My kids were counting on me, and I stepped up to the plate. Not everyone is up to the task. Some don't have the smarts to figure it out and escape the bad situation. Don't get me wrong, it took me a while to learn that you can't fix psychopath.

My minister and church kept saying I was doing something wrong. I finally learned it wasn't me that was wrong; but I kept trying (like I was). Finally, the little light came on. I learned. I've been educating myself since. It's a total learning curve.(BTW, I've changed belief systems, too.)

I'm now very cynical about marriage. I don't trust anyone. I am totally self-responsible. I ask for help from no one. If I can't figure it out my problems, I start reading until a reasonable solution is found. Fortunately for me, I can read a book on typing and then start typing. Very few are able to accomplish such a task, but it is one of my talents. I still have many faults, but I own them. Others have solutions they have worked out for themselves.

When I was younger, I had so much to offer, and my offerings were used and abused. I could have easily been this young woman. I was smart enough not to be, but one (more) wrong turn could have put me down that road. Thankfully, I worked my way through all the turmoil and terror. I'm now college educated, well employed and a contributing member of society. My children are healthy and well, and my grandchildren are wonderful. It could have been a whole different story if one more thing had gone wrong.

I hope this young woman finds her way. It's hard. She needs to realize that she is the only one who can make her life better. She needs help, and she is wise to ask for it. I don't know that prison would be the best answer for anyone, but it's a place to start. May she find the answers she needs, and may she use them to a positive benefit.

I wish her the best. It's not going to be easy; but it can be done.

Sterilize these parents....sterilize men and women related to such behavior. Tie tubes and do vasectomies. It takes several months of responsible sexual behavior to assure the safety of vasectomies. These people would not follow guidelines, so maybe we should consider neutering them as we do cats and dogs. Cut off their testicles, maybe the sexual energy they had no clue what to do with could be turned into productive physical labor. Certainly takes care of aggressive behavior as well. Maybe it is the solution for Al Qaeda, the Taliban and some other radical groups. Cut off their testicles. Turn them into the eunucks of past civilizations. It worked for them.

Alumette: You have introduced and poisoned too many people with your sick mind and your sadistic, twisted cruelty with words. You are the type of person that is alone with no one to talk to but yourself and stuck behind a computer because it allows you to be a cyber bully... outside of your home you are nothing-a nobody. You would never have the strength, courage or the balls to say this to someone in person...what a coward--It must suck being you.

God Bless you because YOU NEED IT!

Yes Ma, and we are. We really are.

alumette WOW I really don't know whether to laugh or cry at your posts.

Rubie:: You show yourself to be a very unimportant person who just loves to put others down to make yourself look better than you are.

YOU are the person with a sick mind and your sadistic, twinted cruelty with words. You must live alone with nobody but a broken mirror to talk to. You are the nothing-nobody you are accusing Alumette of being.

Hopefully God will bless you because YOU NEED IT!

Why should the citizens of California pay for her prison time?

The taxpayer always pays for prison, treatment, whatever you want to do to 'take care of the problem.'

The world would be a better place if all drug users were left to their own devices and self-executed themselves with drug overdoses.

Yeah, that war on drugs definitely has been going well for the past half a century.

@MT, Why not put her in prison? At least she is an American citizen. Most all of your jails in California are full of Illegal Mexican drug adicts so the place you live is bankrupt because of the officials YOU elected. You need help with your thinking but are likely delusional and can't recognize the truth........

Actually prisons and jails are more and more privatized everyday. The building may have your county/state name on it and even have been staffed with county/state employees. Most likely it is ran by a private firm though.

Jail is big business these days. Ever wonder why the largest free country has more prisoners than cold war U.S.S.R.?

Because we allow people a lot of freedom and the vast majority of people on earth are so clueless they couldn't raise a marigold, let alone make their own way.

Like people who judge other people based on life skills, Jeff?

Yeah, there was no intelligent life before the good ol U.S.A.

" vast majority of people on earth are so clueless they couldn't raise a marigold, let alone make their own way."

Tell that to the Chinese and Indians. I would bet to say they are pretty efficient and successful at making their own way. Maybe not your way, but certainly surviving, and to a degree too efficient.

Seven2Seven:: Do you ever watch LOCKUP on TV? It is scenes from different pens/prisoners in this country and some overseas.

Why shouldn't they? They are already supporting 1/2 of Mexico's citizens with services.

alumette,

Once you set the precedent of forced sterilization for committing a crime, who gets to decide which crimes qualify?

@denver,

I believe that was Himmler wasn't it?

Too bad one size fits all justice isn't applicable to closed minds.....

Sorry, SBR, "mother" isn't a title. It's a descriptive noun applied to any woman who has given birth.

Just one question. Who are they selling their babies too. Is there really such a demand for new born babies?

alumette,

That is exactly what makes freedom so messy. Freedom to do what you want should be tempered by the wisdom to do what you ought. But nowhere does it say that freedom is exclusively granted to the wise.

Hey there alum, this "total freedom" allows you to write these ever so loving and compassionate statements online without a gov't agency breaking down your door....just saying

"Total freedom is for intelligent and responsible people but not for the dumb masses who are clueless..."

And your solution for this problem is what exactly?

She didn't do the right thing. You give her way too much credit.

Sounds like she was providing for her habit just fine outside of prison. Your comment may have merit if she was unable to find drugs to support her habit but since she was able to your comment just makes you look ignorant

Maybe, just maybe, what she said is true and she wanted to go to prison to get clean

who is really ignorant here ? O please.....

Now she gets to continue supporting her habit without having to deal with those pesky annoyances like paying for food, housing or health care. She will also make a lot of new contacts making it easier for her to continue using when she gets out.

I thought I read she went to rehab.. She had opportunities to get clean again at tax payers expense and "she was a hard fit" in the rehab programs. So she has to go to prison to get clean where there she will more then likely be exposed to more drugs? I think that is what alumette is trying to say. Anyway, good luck to her, but I think prison may make her more of a hardass.

exactly, THANK YOU thats probably al lshe wanted anyways, she knew in rehab she wouldnt be able to keep going, in prison she can for 4 years and no one can stop her, please she doesnt want to get better nor does she want to save her baby. what if someone had taken her daughter for 25 dollars, and it was a child molester?! or murderer?! no one would have found out for years, so dont think the woman is courageous, you people are crazy. shes a loser, who deserves never to see her child again

The article stated she could be released as early as 16 months... So much for reading comprehension.

Why go straight for the negative people?! Maybe she does want to get clean. In prison drugs aren't free, so she will have to figure out a way to pay for them just like if she was on the streets. It's amazing how people can still find something negative in something positive. Sheesh

The article stated she could be released as early as 16 months... So much for reading comprehension

And while inside there are many things an inmate can do to erase the possibility of early release and/or add time to their sentence. So much for using your head.

You do realize drugs are easily found in jail and prisons? If you think for an instant that it is a drug free environment then you are mistaken.

I have a client whowent into jail addicted to pain killers and came out of jail a heroin addict. You can get more drugs in jail than at a Pharmacy.

right, but realistically, she'll detox (and it will be quite uncomfortable) way before she gets in good enough graces to get heroin. Just sayin'......

Indeed!

That was the first thing I thought of, too...sounds a lot like that Teen Mom lady...

They do have drug tests in prison. It can mess up your early release.

I don't think that anybody feels bad for the woman. People are applauding her efforts at trying to get her life in order. This woman like many others has an addiction that led them to places that most people will never go. Drugs are very powerful and unless you have been addicted it is easy to sit back and say what you would never do. The child and the mother has a shot of having better lives. Believe it or not, people can be redeemed, they can learn from their mistakes and they can right a wrong. She's still young, she can get it together.

"Drugs are very powerful and unless you have been addicted it is easy to sit back and say what you would never do."

Thank you, Realistic woman. I've battled those demons myself. I've been clean and sober for quite a few years now, but addiction is no laughing matter. People who are lucky enough in the genetic lottery to not be so disposed have no idea what they are talking about when they look at addiction as simply a moral failing. The people screaming "no sympathy for addicts" on this thread are revealing more about their own failings as humans than about the failings of the people they despise. Addiction is physiologically and psychologically insidious, and fraught with suffering. Recovery is difficult and often does not take the first, second or 100th time someone tries it. I do not let this woman of the hook for trying to sell her child (and neither is the state), but it sounds like she realizes that she cannot lick this thing by herself and discipline imposed from the outside may be her last choice. There are addiction services in jail and I hope she avails herself to them.

Astro:: And what happens when she gets out? She can have all the support inside, but where will it be when she gets out? Some people have the support on the inside and when they get out they go back to their old ways-- it's party time.

I'm not guaranteeing an outcome. Treatment for addiction does not mean that the person will be miraculously cured, but it can give a person the tools they need to manage their addiction. Clean time in and of itself allows a person trapped in their addiction to see the world from a different perspective. I wish this woman luck.

AllPeople, herein lies the problem. As soon as she is out, the court will give her the kid back. She will get a Leagal Aid attorney for $20 and eat up $$$$$ in court costs to do so.

It is the "me" thing. People don't care because it is not them or directly related to them. The image of the "self" has replaced the image of "family". Quick harsh judgment hidden behind a blackened veil of the superior self. Add in a few trolls to get people started and viola!

Yes, it was good she recognized she was out of control. It is bad that tax payers have to foot the bill. We did not break her, she broke herself. Responsible people clean up their OWN mess.

The baby being in foster care is good news. The baby should have gone to the nearest competent family member. No one from the family coming to pick up the child speaks volumes though.

I also assure you that most of the hateful comments are NOT from the rational thinking majority. Take solace in knowing there will be a change in thinking. Be patient. Live on this Earth and not of it, you'll do just fine.

I have cast a lot of stones and am still learning. I believe everything will be o.k. soon enough.

"Yes, it was good she recognized she was out of control. It is bad that tax payers have to foot the bill. We did not break her, she broke herself. Responsible people clean up their OWN mess."

Taxpayers' dollars go to a lot of things. Frankly, if my $0.00001 helps this woman with addiction services that can help turn her life around, I'll look at it as money better spent than many things they could do with it.

I am sorry. I just do not feel responsible for some one else's drug addiction. When is the last time you bought some weed for the local potheads? Sorry man, if you abuse YOURSELF then YOU are responsible for the repair. It is the adult thing to do. I am all down with moral and other support, just not financial. Sorry, I am a hard@$$.

One question though;
Where is the rest of this girls' family. It is sad that not ONE family member has sought to claim responsibility for the child.

Addiction has social costs which we all share -- higher crime, lost productivity, jails, and passing a whole host of social ills down to the next generation -- whether people like it or not. Services to help people handle their addictions is money well spent and cheaper in the long run, as well as being the right and humane thing to do. This atomized, "everyone for themselves" attitude that is abroad in this land is destructive.

No, what is destructive to this land is everyone is pretending it is a broken vehicle and expecting it to fix itself..

"Prosecutors said that Fousek put the child at risk when he failed to stop Tomasini from breast feeding after resuming her drug habit"

When HE failed to STOP her??? I think that was HER decision and SHE should be the main one to blame.
and alumette I totally agree! Wasting our tax money so she can live and eat and detox for free. I have no sympathy for her whatsoever.