Wrong coco. They (the religious public & church parents) organized and pressured Cy-Fair ISD to cancel planned parenthood's sex ed for the older students. This is a FACT.

Coco1030,

It is the hard core Christians who are pushing for no sex-ed, no morning after pill, and eliminating abortion clinics. Expect to see more of these sad stories as Rick Perry continues to pull his shenanigans about restricting funding to Planned Parenthood and restricting access to medical care by the poor.

That's it, Mike. Show us what a fine human you are by judging without having the faintest idea what kind of situation led this girl/woman to act in this fashion. So easy from the comfort of your armchair, isn't it.

Yep. I'm totally against abortion, but that means I'm totally for sex ed, condoms and financial support for unwed/teen mothers.

If you're going to be pro-life, you need to support life.

That poor baby didn't do a thing to deserve this. I'm glad she made it and is alive.

Give the dogs that found her a BIG STEAK and thank that pedistrian. They deserve it.

Jim & Others - im not religious at all, but even if everything you all say is true, it doesnt change the fact that someone birthed this child, cut the cord and dumped it in a bag on the side of a road.

Why should the schools be required to teach these kids that something like this is unacceptable?

I hate to be the lone liberal employing some logic here, but maybe just maybe the reason we have so many stupid people walking this earth is because we keep making excuses for why it's ok they're stupid and their poor choices arent REALLY their fault.

Sex education is great, informing youth of their options is wonderful...but somehow I doubt this girl was even going to school to be able to have gotten any information even if it was offered. Or I doubt she listened...because it takes a pretty stupid, or rotten, person to do what she did.

There's no excusing this, there's no blaming it on anyone else.

Maybe just maybe the worst of our society wouldnt be so bad, if maybe, just maybe, we expected a tad more out of them than this.

Just a thought...im not sure why we are content with people being such wastes of life, and finding every possible way to explain away their own role in sucking so bad at life.

That's it, Mike. Show us what a fine human you are by judging without having the faintest idea what kind of situation led this girl/woman to act in this fashion.

There is no excuse to kill a totally innocent living, breathing human being. It doesn't matter what the situation was that led the mother to do this. No excuse can justify killing an innocent child.

I am no fan of religion. But Blaming it for every thing is over reach. A child in an nonreligious house can be just as scared and just as desperate of the consequences. The discovery. Its got nothing to do with religion Automatically.

It is disturbing that the people who oppose abortion also are the strongest opponents of birth control and sex education. Stupid really.

Perhaps the baby was stolen from the mother at birth by a third party because they didn't want "another mouth to feed" - who knows?! You just can't say the mother did it! And as far as religion goes, it could have been a myriad of reasons why this baby was abandoned.

Let's focus on the good news. The baby was "saved" and is going to make it. She will be in foster care, or perhaps a loving family will adopt her. Thank goodness!

Rachel, all sex-ed is forced out of Cypress schools by hard-core christians. There are people who want to inform students about the options they legally have but christians are too afraid of talking about sex to children and THIS is the result! Any of you christians out there that stand in the way of sexual education classes, the next time you look in the mirror, realize that babies just like this one DIE because YOU are afraid of the words "penis" and "vagina"!!!

In fairness, Christians aren't the only ones to be whack about talking to kids about sex. Having challenging conversations with your teen can get you in some real trouble even in the "liberal" north east.

A realistic conversation about sex at a level that is honest about what a teen knows and has been exposed to and is respectful of their growing knowledge and includes moral statements AGAINST this kind of behavior will get you a real close look from your local enforcement agency if it's overheard by the "wrong" person.

I find it highly unlikely that this was caused by a systemic problem in the community; more likely it was caused by a small group or an individual who has the mother terrified and/or in captivity. It is almost certain this mother is a victim not an evil human. The story of this horror will likely not be told with any detail. Even if they find the mother, you, I, and everyone who reads this will be kept out of the loop.

edit: srry for the repost

I absolutely, Agree Deb, what this person did was below humanity and inately wrong; animals don't do this. It has nothing to do with religion. What is disturbing is how many on here are sympathizing with her. She carried the baby for 9 or however months without any emotional attachmenet to it, she could have solicited help from many sources, regardless to what many say, she was not stupid about what she did, it was a cold, callous move against a poor helpless baby and she could have dropped the baby without any questions. She wanted it to die because she did not tie off the umbilicial cord. At least she could have given the baby a chance at life, but no she was too selfish and didn't care. I dont care how old she was or any other circumstance. She is a sub-human beoitch; this wasn't an abortion, it was a live birth that she tried to discard. Quit making excuses for her.

How do you guys know that it was the woman/girl herself who cut the umbilical cord and dumped the baby? Perhaps it was the product of incest, the mother was a pre-teen girl, and the father did this? That has happened. Perhaps it was stolen from the body of the mother after she was killed? How many times has that happened in the news?

It takes two to make a baby. Where is the father? Why does he not also deserve your condemnation if you think that she does without more information?

It's all very well to be self-righteous without stepping up an adopting this child, isn't it?

Jessica,

Yes, this mother should have known better. Why should it be the responsibility of schools to teach children about sex-ed?? Because there are way too many crappy parents! Because many parents are just plain BAD parents who neglect or abuse children. And if you are the child of bad parents, where would you learn about anything? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making excuses. What this mother did was wrong. But, I don’t think it is too difficult to imagine this mother (maybe a teen) who was scared and was if fear if she let anyone know about the pregnancy/baby. That is exactly why I am pointing out the necessity of having sex-ed classes for our youth. So they know that, for whatever reason you can imagine, IF they become pregnant, the CAN leave it with the authorities without fear of punishment. You saying that you “doubt” she would listen is a HUGE assumption on your part. What if this was the information that she desperately needed. And if she didn’t listen, you can feel all the more comfortable with throwing the book at her. Some say that ignorance is no excuse. But ignorance IS ignorance. And an uninformed person can’t make the best choice without all the information.

I absolutely, Agree Deb, what this person did was below humanity and inately wrong; animals don't do this. It has nothing to do with religion. What is disturbing is how many on here are sympathizing with her. She carried the baby for 9 or however months without any emotional attachmenet to it, she could have solicited help from many sources, regardless to what many say, she was not stupid about what she did, it was a cold, callous move against a poor helpless baby and she could have dropped the baby without any questions. She wanted it to die because she did not tie off the umbilicial cord. At least she have given have given he baby a chance at life, but no she was too selfish and didn't care. I dont care how old she was or any other circumstance. She is a sub-human beoitch; this wasn't an abortion, it was a live birth that she tried to discard. Quit making excuses for her.

Rats eat their babies quite often as do dogs, cats, birds fish....

Don't hurt yourself looking it up, just understand that nature is amoral not immoral.

HERE'S AN IDEA!!!!! How about instead of relying solely on public schools and organizations to teach kids about their personal matters and RESPONSIBILITY the PARENTS do what they're supposed to do? Sure, offer condoms and whatnot if you want, sounds good. But stop relying solely on others and tv to raise our kids.

par·ent noun \ˈper-ənt\
a : one that begets or brings forth offspring b : a person who brings up and cares for another
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a : an animal or plant that is regarded in relation to its offspring b : the material or source from which something is derived c : a group from which another arises and to which it usually remains subsidiary <a parent company>

Anonymous, great idea! Problem is, the person who suffers when there is a bad parent is the child. Too many bad parents out there.

Learnt… Yes, in fairness, christians are not the only ones. In fact some christians don’t have a problem with sex-ed. I don’t mean for that to come across as a blanket statement, but it is a general rule, that unfortunately, fits the mold.

Did a Dingo dump the baybee?

Its great to think that the parents should teach sex ed but many do not. They do not need to be bad parents, just squeamish, forbidding or in a state of denial. My parents tossed the Life Cycle Library at me and decided I should just read up on the subject. Luckily we had sex ed in the schools once pre-puberty (girls and boys separate) so we knew what was coming. Later again in our teen years so we knew all options available from abstinence to condoms to the pill. We did not have a lot of teen pregnancy.

My now adult daughter did not have these classes when it was her turn and she tells me that her generation is completely clueless.

Anyone considered that the baby might've been born to a girl who was raped, even incestuously, and that her rapist (perhaps her own father/stepfather) took the baby form her and discarded it in an attempt to avoid prosecution? And folks want to post comments, without knowing ANY of the other details about this case than the baby was found, calling for the mother's death?

These particular posters are indicative of just about everything that's wrong with this country--a complete lack of reason, compassion and restraint, with a particularly heinous penchant for killing other human beings.

And Texas is a Pro Life state, too.

Anonymous, how are you going to enforce that? How is that going to prevent another newborn dumping?

Parents have to take responsibility - of course, duh! But when they do not, what then? Should not schools teach sex ed to prevent tragedies like this? Or would you have newborns fend for themselves because their parents were irresponsible?

I cannot remember the name of the one articulate, clear thinking Republican (!) who said [I'm paraphrasing], "Yes, people need to take personal responsibility - but how do we enforce that? If they don't take responsibility, what do we do - leave their children out in the cold? At some point government has to step in, and why can't we talk about that?" I cannot remember who said it, but this was back in the 1980s, and no one really answered him.

A bad day for little kids.

For Jessica. One can always point out how an event is more likely to occur without condoning the event itself. That's what people seem to be doing.

For Dakota. Incorrect, animals do such things. For example, take mice. If the mother feels stressed out or lacks proper food, she'll eat her young. Cats also abandon their offspring quite frequently.

For Anonymous. What should be done and what is done aren't always the same thing. Parents should actually parent their children and teach them some form of morals. However, this doesn't happen in many cases. Hence the need for a universal style program that covers basics for when children fall through the parenting cracks.

For L.J. Excellent catch. Most people rarely consider all possible events before coming to a conclusion. Most people don't even wait for much evidence before declaring the person should be stoned. Throughout most of human history this was the case. The concept of innocent until proven guilty is relatively new.

Fear makes people (especially young people) do stupid things. If you are going to condemn the mother (and I will venture that she is young, naive, and afraid of her family's and communities reaction), then you need to also condemn the family and community. Nobody is saying what she did was right, but taking the arm chair approach that "she should have known better, to hell with her" is like taking a step backward in humanity. If you do not seek out the answer as to why she did this, how are we supposed to learn and grow from such situations?

You just can't say the mother did it!

Unless the mother is dead (not impossible, but percentages dictate that is highly unlikely), as a mother, she had an obligation to her baby, whether she or someone else, dumped it there. If it was someone else, she should have reported it.

Stop making excuses for inhumane behavior; it's no wonder we have so much of it.

you people know nothing about the situation except that there is a baby, and you are all experts, it must be a liberal thing, I also see that its the Christan's and the conservatives that receive the blame and the name calling , I can't help but wonder, with all your knowledge and wisdom is it possible for you to sleep at night? judging from some of the liberal post and the level of reasoning or lack of I would have to say probably not. the fact is liberals opened Pandora's box about 43 years ago and everything has been on a constant down hill flow ever sense, believe it or not liberals are the problem they put the end to the family unit, and we are slowly becoming a nation of bastards, with no direction. some don't even know who daddy is.

There shouldn't be charges of "child endangerment" for this mother, there should be "ATTEMPTED MURDER" charges.

"Sheriff's deputies were still searching Thursday for the baby's mother, who they said could face a felony child endangerment charge."

Not sure how they judge things in Texas..but any where else this would be an attempt murder charge!

Vivian, u r f/u. back under ur rock

Pedestrian in SF: making excuses for heinous crimes much? Have had/caused a bunch of abortions and feel a little guilty? What drives anyone to attempt MURDER?

Jim346431 you proved Jessica's point to a tee.You say your not making excuses but there ya go! Here's your sign! Good post Jessica. I'm not a liberal nor republican. I have a new found admiration for some liberals. You show a lot of common sense.

you people know nothing about the situation except that there is a baby, and you are all experts, it must be a liberal thing, I also see that its the Christan's and the conservatives that receive the blame and the name calling , I can't help but wonder, with all your knowledge and wisdom is it possible for you to sleep at night? judging from some of the liberal post and the level of reasoning or lack of I would have to say probably not. the fact is liberals opened Pandora's box about 43 years ago and everything has been on a constant down hill flow ever sense, believe it or not liberals are the problem they put the end to the family unit, and we are slowly becoming a nation of bastards, with no direction. some don't even know who daddy is.

Yeah, ok. JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED. Hypocrite.

By the way, Sleep tight, DBuck. Did you notice where this happened? Is Texas a state of bastards?

L.J. Rhodes

Anyone considered that the baby might've been born to a girl who was raped, even incestuously, and that her rapist (perhaps her own father/stepfather) took the baby form her and discarded it in an attempt to avoid prosecution?

Yes!!! For almost exactly as long as I considered that the baby might have been fathered by Bigfoot, and the baby was taken from the mother by the aliens who originally brought life to earth and don't want the gene pool messed up any more than it already is.

that baby is lucky...and the mother is a POS...

and the mother is a POS...

Look in the mirror, bob. If you dare.

Not to belittle any of the well thought out comments above but were you all aware that Newsvine's blog system allows anyone for any reason to "collapse" someone else's comments? None of the comments I've seen "collapsed" appear to violate the so-called Newsvine code but they are still censored. For instance the first comment to this article from Mike 679507 was "collapsed" by the community along with the 44 comments in response to his blog. That's 45 people censored! How would you feel if your comment was hidden in this fashion? This is not how a blog is supposed to work. Let Newsvine know what you think of their system.

The babys mother could face charges. News flash. That poor baby didn't have a mother to begin with. If they do find the slut that dropped it 100 lashes from a bullwhip would be a good start then about 30 years of hard labor should get the point across and set a damn good example of what not to do to a baby.

again the real problem is a lack of morals that got her pregnant to begin with, of course a liberal would never see that. who's morals we don't know yet, but morals were lacking at some point. was it rape or incest, under age mother possibly a child herself another product of a sick society, a gift from a society that has discarded morals and cast away all decency and accountability, a society that thinks everything is theirs for the taking, and when things don't work out simply blame the other person or maybe make up a excuse never admit a screw up, its always the other person that is to blame, we don't know what is going on so why not hold off on insulting each other because of beliefs and wait till we know more, what is really amazing is the number of post that just attack the Christan's and the conservatives when they are the ones that look for a life of moral commitment and good conduct, they are the ones that try to be accountable for their behavior, liberals on the other hand are somewhat loosely woven and don't consider being accountable for their actions if they can point their fingers at someone else.

First, sex ed should be taught. HOWEVER, that being said, I think it would be hard if not impossible to find a teen who does NOT know about sex and the consequences. Don't these kids ever watch TV, go to a movie? They're ALL about sex. Don't they talk to their friends? Don't try to say that without Planned Parenthood stepping in in the schools these kids know nothing about sex and what it can lead to, i.e. pregnancy, STD...They KNOW.

I doubt sex ed classes would have done any good. When I went to high school back in the late 70's and early 80's we had sex ed classes and we also had pregnant teen age students. What was then is now.

I don't know the situation in Texas, but I volunteered at a center in FL with women and teens who had unplanned pregnancies. A number of them were afraid they would be kicked out of their homes. We always made sure they had a safe place to stay even if it meant we gave them bus fare to go somewhere to meet a safe relative or friend. Every service we had was free, and services included parenting classes for credits that could be used to purchase all sorts of baby items including new cribs and strollers, diapers, clothing up to four years, wipes, formula, etc. At the first visit they could pick out three maternity outfits. The classes all had free baby sitting as well. We also offered free sonograms to confirm pregnancy and how far along the woman was. The vast majority of our clients needed financial assistance and we provided them with tons of very specific information about where to go, who to call, etc.

We were prolife but had a very strict policy never to try to talk anyone out of an abortion if that was their choice-we were instructed to discuss the client's options so that we could help them with their needs. We did not refer for abortions, however; and that was clearly stated on our sign in sheets and all our advertising. Religion was discussed only if the client wished to discuss it-otherwise not at all. I had one client who was not even pregnant-she came to us because she had been a former client with two kids and was in great need at the time, and we made an exception for her. It was not at all unusual for clients to drop by with their kids to say hi after they had given birth, and that was always fun. I actually gave out my home phone number to clients, and once a young teen client called me in the few days after she had her baby because she was overwhelmed (I remembered how overwhelming it could be-and how much more so for a young teen single mother!) However, she came by much later with her son when he was about a year old to tell me what a joy he had become and that she was getting her GED. One invited me to her baby shower, and I went-and it was all in Creole! (One of her relatives took charge of me and spoke to me in English almost the whole time.)

PLEASE don't assume that all people who are prolife don't care about women or babies after they are born. It simply is not true. Some people may not care, but there are those who do. The center where I volunteered is still going, and it offers more free services than it did when I was there. I think now some regulation has forced it to pay to have an exterior sign specifically saying that it is not an abortion clinic-even though it was always perfectly clear about what it was and what it was not both in advertising and when the clients signed in.

I don't know, the same as the rest of you, the who, what, when or where of this incident. I DO know, however, that I'm sick and tired of reading about irresponsible parenting -- women breeders and male sperm donors. More often than not, those types leave abused and/or traumatized children in their wake. We, as a nation, declare children as a treasured resource of our nation. That does NOT, however, appear to be true as long as we incidents like this happening.

Jessica

I think Jim & others were just pointing out that, although the opportunity exists to drop an infant off with people who can initiate social sevices for her, perhaps the mother didn't know that this option exists. Perhaps if a sex-ed class in school were to draw young women's attention to Safe Baby programs, they would be more likely to use them.

what this person did was below humanity and inately wrong; animals don't do this

Dakota, where did you go to school? Animals DO do this - in fact, not only do they abandon their young, they are known to kill and eat them too. Babies have been exposed and abandoned for centuries - especially girl babies. Doesn't make it right, and I am in full agreement that there were many other possible options for this woman given whatever her situation was, but it's hardly something we've never heard before. In the middle ages, many of the existing monasteries were populated by babies that had been abandoned. People exposed newborns for a variety of reasons and nobody really though much about it. This is well-documented history.

I am a school teacher, we have sex ed classes, and we had the highest teenage pregnancy rate that our school has seen during the 2011-2012 year. That was with handing out condoms at school and giving out information on how to get the morning after pill. 3 of the girls opened up in a school article. One said she had gotten drunk at a party and didn't even know who the father was. Two of them said that they didn't use condoms, even though they knew they were supposed to. While sex ed classes may help a few of the uninformed, with todays innundation of media, the internet, movies, tv, etc, most students already know how babies are made and what they can do to avoid it. Sex ed classes don't make them go, Oh I can use a condom, I didn't know that. They laugh, they take the condom and put it on their banana, and then shoot them at their friend across the room. Sex ed is a joke. Stop blaming the schools for pregnant teens. It's not their fault!

However, I think that maybe they should offer classes for girls who are already pregnant. A place where they can feel safe to go, tell their problems and get the help they need. Teachers have a strict confidentiality code and I know that if a student came to me (as a few have done) with this problem, I would get them the help they need. I would urge them to tell their parents, and have had a few times where I invited the parents to meet with me so that I could support their daughter while she told them. I understand that people's first reaction is to place blame, but you cannot blame groups in general for these problems. The democrats blame the republicans, the athiests blame the christians, the parents blame the schools, and vice-versa, but really, it comes down to the decisions of a few.

Oh I can use a condom, I didn't know that. They laugh, they take the condom and put it on their banana, and then shoot them at their friend across the room. Sex ed is a joke

This is not how sex ed was in my school. They started sex ed in 6th grade and continued it through middle school. People took it very seriously, and so did the teachers. High school is too late for sex ed.

Everyone blaming religion are morons. I'm not Christian so I have no interest in supporting the rabid in that particular group. But the insane actions of people are the result of psychiatry - their complete inability to "cure" anyone, their appalling agendas to destroy the family unit and make every non-optimum behavior be considered "normal", along with the deadly drugging of the people of this country gives us these kinds of results...

To all of you, I was raised as a Catholic although I am not a practicing Catholic Religion has nothing to do with this neither does the fact that schools either are or are not teaching sex education. This issue is simply about how the parents of the girl who dumped her child out with the trash was raised by her parents. The schools are not there to raise our children. The schools are their to teach them. Parents must take responsibility for raising their children.

She's probably from Mexico, and doesn't know our laws regarding infants.

Jim-346431 -

"Anonymous, great idea! Problem is, the person who suffers when there is a bad parent is the child. Too many bad parents out there."

I'm just curious, at what age does this baby become the benefactor of your good graces (in your own words "the person who suffers when there is a bad parent?") and the woman/girl who abandoned this child now becomes (in your own words) one of the "many bad parents out there."

Until we start holding people, remotely, responsible for their actions then there is always an excuse that can be made.

Couldn't/Shouldn't the same understanding that you are giving the woman/girl, be given to her
parents and their parents, and their parents and so on and so on and so on. At some point in our lives we all are likely dealt a bad hand of some sort. I certainly know I was and still am upon occasion. But at what point do we decide "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." (Carl Gustav Jung)

Instead of making excuses for inexcusable behavior, we as a society, need to focus more
on teaching people that they ARE able to care for themselves & they ARE able to make some kind of progress. The way to do that is holding them responsible for making reasonable improvements in their lives. Every one of us is susceptible to needing help at some point. Instead of free hand outs across the
board, if we hold people accountable at attaining certain goals, given their abilities, then and only then will there be a noticeable change in our society.

Quit with the excuses, it only leads to nothingness. Instead, lead by example and assure them that they ARE all they aspire to be. Making excuses says to me that, you, Jim, don't believe any more in their own abilities than they themselves do!

I live in Texas and I all the comments at the top of this thread are BS as far as schools here not having sex ed. Your very wrong. You are a sh17 stirrer is all you are. Try to make people hate other people and blame anyone or anything else other than where it needs to go. Like a previous poster said, this is not about birth control and religious if anything you would think that LACK of religion would prompt someone to leave a living breathing child from her body on the side of the street so that was the most ignorant excuse to attack religion! I do however think that if this was a young kid maybe 15, they might not know where a fire station or hospital is and may not have a way to get there without having to tell someone! The reason these girls do this is they are AFRAID to tell anyone! There is no real good excuse but SOMEONE needs to talk to these girls. Every year there are a whole new crop of girls having sex and possibly becoming pregnant that don't know that it is better to tell someone then do something like this. Its not religion that makes people do this its and they do have sex ed but someone needs to ingrain emotion, feelings, compasion for other humans! This is not something that kids learn on their own!

Just curious. If abortion were illegal how many infants would be left at the side of the road do ya think?

Sorry, Rachel. You're wrong about that 30 minute thing. Don't let your ignorance get in the way of your kookery though.

Unbelievable. ANYONE that would walk away after finding a baby on the road like that is as bad as the so-called mother. Its not a republican/democrat issue. Its a moral issue that shouldn't have to be taught. Who does something like that and not know its sick and wrong?

Where is the father? He probably walked away a long time before the mother did. It's happening every day in this country to newborns who are not abandoned by their mothers, and thus do not make the news.

well, when the woman has all the say... it becomes all her responsibility, she said yes to sex, she said yes to keep the baby......her decision, her responsibility, and she should have chosen a better man to sleep with if she wanted a father figure and not a fun time.....

It is funny (NOT) how making a child is all a woman's decision/right, and the man has no say, but when she wants some child support, suddenly it is his responsibility as well.

She could have always said no to sex. (it isn't that hard).... and I am a female, and think a lot of these feminazi's are runining family values just as quickly as any dead beat dad.

"which could of led to a baby's death,"

how do you get paid to be a reporter when you mess up on simple grammar? i am normally not one to be the grammar police, but when you write or type news, the only thing you really need to know is proper english.

could HAVE

on another note, i hope they catch the piece of crap who did this. thank god the baby survived

Or, Reality, it is more likely that the girl was trying to prevent her parents from killing HER.

I rather doubt that the mother was involved in the baby being where she was found. It is possible that mother is dead or dying and this abandonment was done by her boyfriend or whoever was with her.

If it was the mother, chances were that she may have thought that the baby was dead already. She may have had no way to get to a fire station or a hospital, and as for the "no questions asked" I'm guessing that there's someone who always asks a question, gets the mother's face on the camera, or is there (in her mind) to guilt her.

There used to be a way to leave a baby at an orphanage, where the mother did it by putting the baby into a sliding drawer, that when she pushed the drawer in, the baby was pushed through to the other side, and no one in the building saw who did it. However, it was also open to abuses by other family members taking the baby to one of the many orphanages and not telling the mother where it went.

Lil Ole Me- You are pretty freaking ignorant. It was the mans responsibility just as much as the woman's to at least wear protection. When you create a child its two peoples responsibility its just easier for the man to walk away because he doesn't carry it for nine months.

AP I suppose you could say that abortion and infanticide accomplish the same thing.

Lil Ole Me... Single parenthood and poverty are risk factors for a lousy life outcome... Not determinate, but definitely a risk factor. Thus, I don't know why we're so laissez faire about it. Like there is something wrong with making a commitment by two people who have sex. ooooh, so awful!

A father isn't legally responsible for providing for a baby until after it is born. This had to be some teen mother who hid her pregnancy from everyone.

I am not sure if the person who found the baby was a liberal or conservative. Seems to me that the dogs probably have more since than half the people on this post. Thank "GOD" that they found her and she was rescued. Sex is for procreation or a bond between a man and a woman not recreation. Take a look at the video on youtube "Gianna Jessen" abortion survivor who speaks publically. See people make choices and quite often poor ones not mistakes. I am guilty as charged. However good makes no mistakes so when a child is born God knows, God knows every hair on everyones head. God makes no poor choices or mistakes. So when the poor choice is made to have an abortion, one is not ridding ones self of a mistake but making the poor choice of murder. For all of you atheist out there chomping on the bit to attack me, If you have "Faith that there is no God" then congraduatlations you have religion. Having "Faith" is a part of religion. You may deny God. God promises not to deny you. This may not be a good thing for some people.

If the person who found this unfortunate child was a Texas Republican they would have walked away.

Well Kenm....you think you are slick and you speak as if Dims are compassionate. They are NOT.

Let me remind you. Your friend Barack Obama voted, while he was an Illinois Senator, that it would be okay for an abortion doctor to allow an aborted baby......if accidentally born alive ......... to die unattended. In other words, Obama voted for infanticide.

So NO......we know from an actual vote by the leader of YOUR party as to what Dims would do in this case .................. They would leave the baby there on the side of the road in the cold....to DIE ......

Pjames - I would like to know how you came to the conclusion that this Mother made a choice to become pregnant? Thousands of girls and women are abused and raped year after year. I don't know about the circumstances of this pregnancy, or the reason for the abandonment, but I find it really irritating that you are so sure she had to be some kind of sinner! About this procreation crap - maybe you should preach that sermon to the men of this world who think women are just objects to be used however, and whenever they see fit! Oh - and alot of these men end up to being, so called, God fearing men of the Cloth! And one more thing - if God truly knows every hair on every head, why does such a GOD let these things happen over and over again! We don't know the facts of this story - and, if you are, as you seem to imply, (a good Christian) then who are you to judge?? There will only be one judgement placed on this girl, and it won't be yours!!!!!!!!!!!

First, sex ed should be taught. HOWEVER, that being said, I think it would be hard if not impossible to find a teen who does NOT know about sex and the consequences. Don't these kids ever watch TV, go to a movie? They're ALL about sex. Don't they talk to their friends? Don't try to say that without Planned Parenthood teaching sex ed classes in in the schools these kids know nothing about sex and what it can lead to, i.e. pregnancy, STD...They KNOW. Class would probably include a session on, "IF you should get pregnant", just come see us and we'll take care of it and we nor you will even have to tell your parents.

I hope they find the mother that did that. And I hope she goes to prison for a long long time. When the law makes it so easy to not have to take care of the child, why in the name of sanity would somebody be so heartless to do that to an innocent child? It sickens me, and angers me to no end. I notice that many of you are assuming that its a teen that did this; it could have very easily been an adult, a cold heartless adult.

Texas should be allowed to leave the union. Once all their oil is gone, they will be just like Mississippi. As far as I'm concerned, since the blue states actually provide more cash to red states, they ought to show some graditude and quit with the holier than thou attitude.

The liberals are for more education and the southern states are more in need of it than any.

This does not mean to say all people from that region are as I describe but they do have most of the dummies in the USA.

Vote for free contraceptives and you will save lives. If you get your shorts tight up your crack because it seems unfair, then you are part of the reason there are so many abortions and abandoned babies.

Lil' O Me,You are making a lot of assumptions with those comments.I'm a woman also and can't imagine doing this but then I am not in her shoes.As a woman you should have more compassion for a woman in this situation.

Marie Faith << ~~~~~ >> Why aren't you hoping the baby's father be found and sent to prison for a long time ?????????????

pjames-"sex is for procreation or a bond between a woman and a man not recreation" gotta love someone who informs the entire human race about what sex is for.

Ido, you are an idiot; a Republican (Christian, definitely) would made sure the baby made it to the hospital, probably helped pay the bill.

Truthhurts beat me to it, but I'm going to repeat it anyway: WHERE IS YOUR PROOFING? "...which could of led to a baby's death....."

It isn't COULD OF. What the person likely said was "could've," which should have (not should of) been written that way or as "could have."

OY!

Jim246431...

I just moved to Cypress TX a year ago (really) and I want to address this quote: ""All you have to do is hand the baby over," said Gwen Carter, a spokeswoman for Harris County Child Protective Services." While it may be true that all you have to do is hand the baby over… religion has pushed out any talk of sex-ed in these schools! Anyone attempting to tell students that IF in the event they were to give birth, they have the option to give it to authorities without fear of prosecution would be the center of a witch hunt! Hard-core christians are the reason this (likely young) mother (likely) had no idea that was an option. As much as I want to hate her for what she did to that poor baby, I'm willing to bet that some religious person actively and aggressively opposed any type of sexual education at this mother's school!

Jim maybe if you are going to make such emphatic statements about your school district and their commitment to sex ed you could possibly look up the curriculum you district offers regarding SEX ED and Health ED. Hint the program for your district is provided in 7th and 8th grade. All of the details for the program are available for parents so that the discussions can be carried into the safety and personal positions of the family perspective.

religion has pushed out any talk of sex-ed in these schools!

That is just not true. The discussions are generally based around an abstinence approach for teens and children because it is the only 100% method to not get pregnant, avoid sexually transmitted diseases and also a way to allow teens and children time to develop socially and emotionally before entering into a sexual relationship. Tools like birth control and condoms are also discussed, although not handed out like candy. Condoms are a very important part of the discussion because where they are talking to 7th and 8th graders those kids will grow up and need to practice safe sex habits particularly when it comes to protecting themselves and partners from STD"s and as a birth control.

Anyone attempting to tell students that IF in the event they were to give birth, they have the option to give it to authorities without fear of prosecution would be the center of a witch hunt!

What an uninformed comment. Why would we as a state population, actually the first state to institute such laws, institute safe haven law's to protect the safety of infants along with the anonymity protections of a birth parent if the goal was not for the greater good. Seriously, if you watch the local news quite often you see articles where useless people have dumped their children in any number of heinous manners and the reporter always outlines the specifics of our safe haven laws. I haven't seen any of them the subject of a witch hut to date.

Hard-core christians are the reason this (likely young) mother (likely) had no idea that was an option.

Wow...your imagination is just running rampant. It seems more and more that when newborns are murdered, dumped in garbage bags etc. religion has nothing to do with the motivation. More often than not it is a kid who is not capable of handling the adult responsibility of having a baby to the point that they try to get through a pregnancy without the family finding out and when the birth happens they are still in denial and do awful things.

As much as I want to hate her for what she did to that poor baby, I'm willing to bet that some religious person actively and aggressively opposed any type of sexual education at this mother's school!

Give the discussion here Jim (apparently a male) you would gladly err on the side of a newborn being abandoned outside of an apartment complex in a shopping bag because you don't understand that even without sex ed being offered in schools that teens and even children know what it takes for basic survival.

Quite often we find in these cases that kids and teens find themselves playing adult by having sex and then reverting back to the self serving nature of children and teens at the expense of another living being.

If you honestly think that any kid in middle school or high school in Texas don't know about birth control, abortion, the fact that it takes 9 months for a body to grow a baby then you are really out of touch. Kids talk among themselves and are much more unreliable than any curriculum taught in school.

My daughter came home the other day with discussions, no names, about two of her friends. One is two months pregnant, planning to have the baby, has been bleeding and just hasn't gotten around to talking to her parents about her situation yet. She hasn't done anything more than pee on a stick and experienced the drama of her partner claiming it wasn't his. So how do we think this kid, who has gone through school with sex ed and has had exposure to the biology of pregnancy but hasn't the conviction to that pregnancy to seek help. Like so many young people they play with adult behavior and yet have no character to act like an adult.

The other young lady, was experimenting with drugs over the weekend and had sex for the first time with a guy she doesn't even like. She has had some physical issues since then and won't talk to her parents. Instead she is going to just be symptomatic. Again playing like an adult without the common sense to act like one.

So I suppose someone will sue me....women's issues are very important to me....the most important is respect for ones body and the importance of maintaining reproductive health. So I was passing by a planned parenthood clinic the other day and went in with the intention of getting information for these young ladies. Seems that Planned Parenthood clinic doesn't do that, provide information and services on reproductive health, they only provide information and services on options but then their discussion on options are limited to abortion. They don't support prenatal care for young women. No exams to determine if a pregnancy is healthy. No pamphlets on what a woman needs to know to carry a pregnancy to term. No condoms and certainly not an outlet for low and no income women to have access to birth control. Fortunate, after I sat there and asked what they did have to offer these young women the gave me a tel number for Baylor's teen clinic. I gave the information to my daughter who in turn gave it to her friends. Sadly, even though they now have some sort of access to medical support they probably won't use it. Instead they will wallow in the drama of childhood until a greater need arises.

txmom32

Are you saying teaching abstinence in sex ed will stop these behaviors of these teens?

Rachel: If "abortion after 20 weeks is murder" what do you call abortion at 19 weeks, 6 days??? Why is there a "magical transformation" at the 20th week? The baby is has not become a different person in 24 hours and yet according to you to abort this little one now is to murder him? Why would you not have murdered him yesterday or last week? Life is life-just because something needs to be nurtured and cared for does not mean that it is not worthy to survive.

Texas does have sex ed like any other state. Girls do this in ever state. There is a big problem with not teaching morals, compasion and feelings for others. I know that they tell people they can turn in unwanted kids, no questions asked but a very young person might not have a way to get to a hospital or fire department without telling someone and that is the last thing they want to do. A young scared girl is not thinking logically. There does need to be more said about taking unwanted babies to fire stations and hospitals.

Brainwashedfrombirth.

From all of that you picked up on abstinence only. Perhaps you should widen your own views.

What we are missing from our education system are some rather important factors:

Self-respect and accountability for actions, you can teach it all day long but if a kid is not open to these concepts then resources in education are wasted. Despite the specific topics abstinance, birth control, health management etc. if kids don't care they are not going to benefit.

What we miss in society are even greater.

1) A lifeline to support victims of abuse either by family or by partner. We do a piss poor job in this country and yet we take the subject of abuses like battering of partners, rape and incest very seriously in our country. Unfortunately, we have a diverse populations of cultures coming to America with an indifference to our laws, priorities, and our national identitiy.

2) We have far too many organizations who will seek to elevate their personal agendas on the backs of children. It is time that we make our children a priority so they can grow up to be responsible and nurturing.

Showmespfld...six days in the development of a fetus is the defininition of rapid change. It takes a full gestation for a fetus to develope into a fully selfsufficient baby. Changes in development are massive over the course of six days.

niece1964...You are right on the money. We do need to talk more about safe haven laws. We also need to offer some sort of support for minors who turn children over so that they can, themselves, get beyond surrendering that which came from their bodies.

Personally, if a child is so concerned as to hide a pregnancy and birth from her family something needs to be done to protect that child. Because that young woman is eventually going to grow up and deserves the opportunity to move forward.

tmr--don't be stupid. when you have someone uncaring enough to do this rather than drop the baby off at a police station and sign for adoption, sex education IS NOT the problem. Being a piece-of-@!$%# IS.

Sex education is needed but for women/girls like this FORCED sterilization. Goes double for the "fathers."

Rachel - "Don't be stupid." Perhaps the mother might not have gotten pregnant had she been taught about contraception - and not had it been so demonized that it can't even be discussed as an option. Maybe she's not a POS, but a frightened, traumatized young woman who just gave birth to an unwanted child on her own with nobody to turn to and no prenatal care/counseling.

Show me a man or woman alive that doesn't know about contraception. What you're really saying is that Texas should pay for the contraception, not the responsible individuals. Providing free contraception doesn't work if people aren't willing to use it. I would love to see the government making it a prerequisite to have implanted birth control in order to receive public assistance.

Why will somebody be charged with murder for killing an unborn baby in an alcohol related traffic accident but nobody gets charged when an abortion is performed? Why is one called a baby and the other a fetus?

Rachel, all sex-ed is forced out of Cypress schools by hard-core christians. There are people who want to inform students about the options they legally have but christians are too afraid of talking about sex to children and THIS is the result! Any of you christians out there that stand in the way of sexual education classes, the next time you look in the mirror, realize that babies just like this one DIE because YOU are afraid of the words "penis" and "vagina"!!!

Jim -- my, you're on quite the rampage against Christians. As stated earlier, Christianity has nothing to do with it, and no, we're not "afraid of the words "penis" and "vagina." The point is that she left her baby outside like trash to die. THAT'S attempted murder. Put the blame where it belongs -- on her -- for abandoning her baby -- not on Christians. I don't condemn her for getting pregnant -- yes, it happens to Christian girls, too. You have the typical mindset of too many people today -- passing the blame and accountability. If women want to be in control of their bodies, they should be in control before conception occurs. Getting an abortion/killing the baby are indications that they're NO LONGER in control. THAT'S why we're in the mess we're in, not because of lack of sex ed in schools -- which, by the way, are being taught in schools.

Rachel, all sex-ed is forced out of Cypress schools by hard-core christians. There are people who want to inform students about the options they legally have but christians are too afraid of talking about sex to children and THIS is the result! Any of you christians out there that stand in the way of sexual education classes, the next time you look in the mirror, realize that babies just like this one DIE because YOU are afraid of the words "penis" and "vagina"!!!

In fairness, Christians aren't the only ones to be whack about talking to kids about sex. Having challenging conversations with your teen can get you in some real trouble even in the "liberal" north east.

A realistic conversation about sex at a level that is honest about what a teen knows and has been exposed to and is respectful of their growing knowledge and includes moral statements AGAINST this kind of behavior will get you a real close look from your local enforcement agency if it's overheard by the "wrong" person.

I find it highly unlikely that this was caused by a systemic problem in the community; more likely it was caused by a small group or an individual who has the mother terrified and/or in captivity. It is almost certain this mother is a victim not an evil human. The story of this horror will likely not be told with any detail. Even if they find the mother, you, I, and everyone who reads this will be kept out of the loop.

I'm sorry, but why is my birth control a responsibility of anyone's other than my own? I am a woman and I don't believe the governement or anyone else is responsible for my health but me. That's what is wrong with this country. Gimme gimme gimme. Let the governement pay for it. The gvmt should pay for my birth control, my abortions and my healthcare. WHY????? No responsibility anymore. That's why this country is going to hell.

Gem, yes, religious nut really bother me. And this is why. This baby being thrown out is a DIRECT result of aggressive efforts to push (force on others) a christian agenda. Let me be clear, the christians I refer to are not the Mr. Rogers, be kind to others, type. They are the ignorant hicks that latch on to religion and want to feel superior and suppress others, anyone else that is different (i.e. gays). They look for an excuse to hurt people who are different and justify it by quoting the bible. Yes, the mother should have known better. My argument is that it is quite possible she didn’t. How could she not have??? Because christians actively BLOCK sex-ed programs that could have prevented this situation. That is why education is so important. Who is against education? christians are. Why, because of faith. Religion is not reasonable, that is why christians teach the suspension of reason. Perhaps this girl was raped, perhaps this girl had the misfortune of working for the local church which pushed for and was granted immunity from the new law that requires all employers to cover birth control??? May be she DIDN’T have a choice for getting pregnant. Planned Parenthood in the class rooms would have informed her of her options. Yes, christians blocked this from happening.

Jim, that's your agenda and you'll say anything to back it up. Trouble is that it's all one-sided. We really don't know her circumstances -- who she is, how old, background, situation of how she got pregnant, sex ed -- but the mother should have known better -- NOT to not get pregnant because it happens, but NOT to try and kill her child.

Jim-346431

You a good grasp on the social situation in Texas and most of the US, however, there is

A] personal accountability

B] a strong likeliness that the mother is also a victim

C] a social failure that is much more pervasive then religion

When considering personal liberty, one must always consider the personal liberty of others or society fails to function, as in this case. Doing the right thing is it's own reward, no matter what your faith or lack there of.

Learnt… Yes, in fairness, christians are not the only ones. In fact some christians don’t have a problem with sex-ed. I don’t mean for that to come across as a blanket statement, but it is a general rule, that unfortunately, fits the mold.

yep, the mold fits.

Show me a man or a woman alive who doesn't know about contraception.

Todd - one of my FB friends told me about her sister-in-law who has three kids and still doesn't understand that children are born from a different oriface than the one women use to urinate. If you ever work with the public, you will get an education about how unfortunately primitive and ignorant of anatomy certain segments of our population are.

For example, Representative Mary Sue McClurkin (R-Alabama) just pushed legislation calling a fetus "the largest organ in a woman's body." Aside from the astonishing ignorance that it takes to call a fetus an organ, apparently even this ostensibly educated woman, who somehow got herself elected to the House of Representatives, does not know that the largest organ in the body is the skin. I learned that in middle school!

For those who are pregnant, or about to be, it's about 49/49. Half of the females know what babymaking is all about, and they do it. Half are so thickheaded they couldn't find their vagina (OMG, a Repub just fainted) if they tried, but they are "entertained" and make babies. The other 2% are rape or incest victims (dang, another one just passed out.) (Sorry, just couldn't resist. This isn't a political issue.)

As far as sex ed goes, we have a great number of children in the world who ignore their education, teachers, parents, peers, and go about the business of bumping uglies. We can pound our heads against the wall (bad pun), but if they have no care (I call it shame), then there's not a darned thing we can do, short of chastity belts. And we have no guarantees with them, either. Fertile Myrtle can churn out 2 or 3 babies while still in high school.

Religion?--same thing goes. Abortion?--again, same thing. It doesn't matter to some kids. They just don't care or don't think it will happen to them. (I'm on a roll, religion and abortion in the same paragraph, and about the same thing!)

This baby could have been born to a very mature woman. We don't know and may never learn. Blaming does no good. It's just hot air. Actions are what matters. Good actions or bad ones, some actions need to be made. This type of child abandonment cannot continue, and that's what the message should be.

I have no idea where or who this child came from. I'm glad she's okay, and I sincerely hopes she finds a loving family to care for her. This situation happens far to frequently, and all states, including Texas, need to step up to the plate and advertise the availability of the Moses Law--surrendering the infant to safety. Whispering about it behind closed doors does no good to anyone.

What if the mother was a sex slave, and her pimp did the dumping? Some johns like having sex with pregnant women. Who is she going to tell?

Hey Libs. in this day and age there is no excuse for abortions unless of rape or danger to the mother's life, birth control is so cheap and available, there is reasoning with liberals they seem to thing it's ok not to be responsible for there actions. So owning up is to hard so lets just kill the unborn.

There are pleanty of people in this country that cannot havekids and would love to adopt one, my sister and her husband is one of them, i see the sorrow in her eyes when she is around my kids, knowing she will never have any.

Jim346431 you proved Jessica's point to a tee.You say your not making excuses but there ya go! Here's your sign! Good post Jessica. I'm not a liberal nor republican. I have a new found admiration for some liberals. You show a lot of common sense.

Having met a few Texans while visiting friends and having had an argument about abortion after a rape, I understand the irritation that Jim 346431 has with "Christians." I don't believe Jim is ticked about those who act like real ones, but is angry about those who are not tolerant, forgiving, understanding, generous and caring just as the good book dictates they should be. For some reason, a great many Southern Christians think they have been annointed by God to pass judgment against anyone who disagrees with their type of fanaticism or who is trapped in a lifestyle that was not their choice. I was told that if they saw a "gay" lying in the street bleeding, they would step over him because he has no useful purpose and is living a life of sin. Nice, huh? And these people wore a crucifix on their necks. I wonder how Jesus would feel about all the hate that exists in the heart under which he hangs!!!

As far as the gal who left that infant is concerned, I refuse to pass judgment because she may have been a victim of rape with no means to rid herself of the product of it. After all, one Republican Senator said that a woman's body has a way of taking care of that. He is a numbskull of the first ward. Sex education should be in the schools, not only to teach teenagers how to prevent pregnancy, but it also provides information about the function of the body, the health risks of promiscuity without protection, and how to handle the changes that occur while they are becoming adults. Parents cannot cover that kind of information clinically without embarrassment or discomfort and it is best if it comes from an unrelated adult. It is unfortunate, however, that what is NOT TAUGHT adequately is dignity, confidence and self-worth. Many gals are trapped into having sex without protection because of peer pressure. They want to "belong" to someone and are too immature to risk not having a boyfriend because "everyone else does." The fellows too are not taught respect for the word, "no." They call gals by rude, mean, dirty names as they walk by, which most certainly affects a gal's opinion of herself if she hears it often enough. They think it is cool not to have class. I have seen it often--once even a 7-yr old boy who stuck his hand out the window of a schoolbus showing his middle finger and calling me a "f*ing bitch" while I sat in my car alongside the bus. And, of course, one must not slap the little snot's face because it is abuse. Dignity, confidence and self-worth, above all, will prevent a great many unwanted pregnancies and teach our kids a little class.

Heath, there are many thousands of kids from age three on up, just begging to be adopted. The world is filled with many hundreds of mothers on waiting lists for a newborn baby. That makes no sense.

Jim, you seem to go a little overboard here. Up here, in the northeast, where every school has sex ed., we have had more than one young college girl dump their baby, in the trash, on the side of the street, or near unoccupied buildings, etc. It is not, very regretfully, as rare as it seems to be made out to be with this article. There is more to this story than appears, I am sure.

A good part of it is a lack of parental guidance, or an unrealistic cultural problem, or is it, as many people have pointed out in the past, society's problem. Our entire nation is at risk because of many problems, and this is just another aspect of those problems.

Frosty,Great comments.

Some good comments on here. I'm a Christian, but (gasp) I can't say I'm really for abstinence only education (in a public school) because not everyone is going to follow it. Not everyone is a Christian, and not everyone follows Christian moral ideals-let's get real, not every Christian follows Christian moral ideals. Having said that, I think the TRUE facts need to be given to kids whether they care or not because some of them may care; and those include the medical fact that abstinence is the only 100% foolproof method of preventing pregnancy and STD's when practiced consistently. They should realize that other methods of preventing pregnancy or STD's are not 100% effective and should be informed of their success rates-though some other methods of birth control are close to 100% IF they are done consistently and correctly. The key is being consistent and doing them correctly.

I also agree with other commenters that very important parts of sex education should focus on the kids' self respect and their ability to set boundaries. A girl needs to respect herself enough to be able to say no if she does not want to have sex, and a boy needs to respect himself enough not to have to prove his manhood by dominating women or gaining sexual conquests. If they respect themselves, they can respect each other as people and not violate each others' boundaries. That way, sex can be a real choice and not something that is forced or automatic. "Hooking up" seems to avoid the more difficult part, which is true intimacy-involving communication and doing the work of actually getting to know a person. That's fine if a person is satisfied with hooking up-knock yourself out if that's what you prefer, especially if you are an adult-but my college aged kid is finding that few of her friends, either male or female, are finding it satisfying. Instead, it's leaving them pretty empty; and they are complaining to her all the time.

When I was volunteering at the crisis pregnancy center, many of the girls with unplanned pregnancies hadn't realized that they could actually say no to sex even when they wanted to say no. They seemed to feel that saying no would mean that they were abnormal or weird because they had been told so often that "everyone is doing it" and that kids "couldn't control themselves" and so forth. They seemed very relieved at the idea that they had the choice of saying no. One girl actually put me on speaker phone with her boyfriend when we were talking about abstinence because she wanted HIM to hear it also. When kids are empowered and given the ability to make choices-and shown how to make choices that will help them succeed better in the future (you don't even have to think about morality-these are choices that affect a kid's entire future)-more of them will be likely to make healthier choices.

This isn't about me feeling morally superior or telling people how to live because I have some agenda. I'm just human like everyone else-and I made plenty of mistakes when I was a kid. This is about me having seen many kids who were in difficult situations and how hard it was for them and still is for some and looking for how others can be helped to make decisions that will help them avoid those pitfalls. It doesn't have to be about a certain religion or morality. We all want teens to face as bright a future as they can, don't we? We need to try to help them avoid the same mistakes we made and the mistakes others are making so that they can enjoy that future.

Todd...You are SO right! It's NOT a lack of sex ed. Women (and men) KNOW about contraception. It's been all over TV, papers, movies, forEVER. The biggest things lacking are self respect, self control...and MORALS.

I'm a republican and live in Texas and we have sex ed. Jim is some crazy freak that I'm sure is the cause of people not wanting the pledge being said in schools but believe me there is no huge religious wacko craze going on here. What you hear is the hype from a few wackos and other people want to deamonize the whole group because it is to their benifit. I believe like all other women I know and they are all republicans, that women should be in control of their bodies but at the same time they have to take responsibility for their own actions! Dont have a baby and thorw it by the road and not think you will be held responsible for it. Give it away, hand it off to someone, have an abortion but don't leave it to die like trash! Stop making excuses for people having no feelings. It is the responsibility of parents to teach their children compasion and feelings for others. Parents are to blame for many of our worlds ills. All the bullying and me, me, me attitude is from ignorant people haveing kids! Put the blame where it needs to go. I think Jim is the father of this girl or knows her to be so rabid and telling all these lies! People like him cause more hate because ignroant people just believe anything crazy people say!

There you go again, Rachel. This "foster home @!$%#" is a temporary solution until adoptive parents can be found. Or maybe you think the infant should be sent to Miss Hannigan's Orphanage.

Rachel - you may not be familiar with how this ""foster home" @!$%#?" works, but I hope I can reassure you. There are many, many families in Texas certified to foster/adopt. This means that they can take in a foster child, and are willing to adopt that child if and when the biological parents' legal rights are terminated. It is very likely that this baby will be placed in a foster/adopt home, and eventually adopted by that same family. A good friend of mine adopted a baby in exactly the same way - baby was born drug-addicted; mother walked away; my friend became the foster parent when baby was released from hospital; then adopted the child after parents' legal rights were severed.

Daisy, you're another moron and so are you, Virginia. I'm sure the state of Texas can keep a list of eager and qualified adoptive parents.

Or have you never heard of the horrors many foster kids face? Foster parents often do it for the money, unlike adoptive parents.

Daisy, you from Miss Hennigan's Home for Mental Defectives.

rachel

how about you tell us what group homes are like, because that is the other option for the baby until adoptive parents are found. foster homes are not ideal, but group homes are worse, and those are the options. my older brother ended up in foster care for reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion, his foster parents were incredibly nice and generous people. getting raped by older boys in the group home when he was 9 didn't work out too well for him though

what do they do in foster care anyways? teach people to cast insults and call people names whenever their point of view is challenged? grow up

Again, "truth," there are thousands of worthy would-be adopters who would take an infant at a moment's notice. AGAIN, you idiot, they CAN BE VETTED FIRST AND BE ON A LIST.

You are obviously someone who has callously ignored the often horrible experiences kids have in foster care and the serial foster homes they all too often experience.

What did they do in your home? Teach people to have opinions when they should have facts? GROW UP.

rachel ~~~~~~~~~>>>>> WHY just the mother ??? Why not the father, also, too, as well ???????

Rather astounding that so many people have concluded so much with so little information. The mother, father, parents of both, school system and the state of Texas have all been blamed. I think I'll wait for more information and then I'll form an opinion. (not that my opinion, or yours, matters).

When my dog (who thankfully has never found a baby) is concerned, I have to drag him away from the object, if I can at all. He has stopped by sick homeless and we've called the paramedics because he whined and wouldn't leave until I investigated what was upsetting him..

dogs have this wonderful inherent quality to know when help is needed. Only a rude and clueless owner would miss the concern of the dog. Most dog owners pay attention to their pets behavior....and they investigate what got the attention of the dog.

Thank you, Rachel. Your explanation helps me to understand what took place with the dogs and their walker. I'm amazed that your dog refuses to leave when something is wrong.

My male black & tan hound convinced me to follow him by barking and pulling on my pants leg; he led me to some newborn puppies someone had dumped in a ditch.

linzer: Dogs have been known to actually care for abandoned babies. So have wolves. It may be quite uncommon, but it is documented that it has happened.

maybe she should be found and sterilized. Likely the next kid will suffer the same fate or worst. Too bad having a child is not a rare privilege. Nature screwed up there. We have too many baby factories who put out their damaged genes without concern. Humanity is suffering because of it, not to mention these poor kids.

I saw a post somewhere, that the best way to save time is to quit reading Facebook or Newsvine at the first grammatical error. I wish I was disciplined enough to do it, and it would sure save a lot of frustration if I did.

twons,You are already giving this woman a trial?She may be homeless and or mentally ill.She may be here illegally and doesn't know that she can surrender her baby with no questions asked.She could be a victim of rape and didn't know where to turn.

I have found no further information regarding this incident on any of the Houston area news sources. Good dogs though, They deserve some cheddar!

On an aside, I wish people, particularly the young folk, would correctly pronounce contractions, My pet peeve is hearing a professional speaker pronounce "didn't" as Did-Dent! Wouldn't as Wood-dent!

really, you are more concerned with the grammar rather than the fact that an innocent newborn human being was left outside in the cold, to DIE? ...

Who is telling you people that Texas schools only teach abstinence? You're wrong. As a matter of fact - Cy Fair ISD - the area where this child was found -- has daycare facilities at some of its schools for students' children. Keep spouting off like you know what you are talking about....

maybe they should teach birth control there as well.

Hot in miami: very ignorant.

Teaching sex education in schools does NOT prevent evil things like this from happening. Teaching responsibility, compassion, and honor would do all of you people a lot of good. Unfortunately people don't care about morals and ethics anymore so why waste my words?

I agree with the grammar comments -- especially pathetic since this is a writer of the story. Sort of like "Him and myself went to the meeting." "Call her or myself." "It's about you and he." Maybe they should focus on teaching grammar in schools because if they teach sex-ed like they do grammar, no wonder there's still so many teen pregnancies.

During the first year of the recession, about 30 percent of all proofreaders nationwide were cut. And it shows.

supporting ? wrong word...more like tolerating because we have no choice on the issue.

If it was dropped off by a pimp or madam, neither will care about taking the baby to the hospital or a safe spot. The wonder is that the baby wasn't dropped off in a dumpster.

Andy,the very best post so far.You are an intelligent and compassionate human being.The world needs more people like you.

I agree with Andy's post. We really have no idea what happened in this situation. The mother of the baby may not have known she was pregnant (it's happened) and she may have panicked. She may have been a prostitute who was there because of the sex trade-which is pretty bad in the US, by the way. If that were the case, she would have no resources at all and no help-she might even be an illegal alien brought here under false pretenses with a promise of work and a green card who was then turned into a sex slave (and that happens also-I have a friend who did a benefit to help women caught up in sex trafficking, and she met women from all over the world who had been victims of it).

As others have said, she may also be the victim of incest-and the father may have done this to the baby to hide the crime (THIS sort of thing also happens-I knew someone who became pregnant as a result of incest and had a forced abortion at a pretty young age.) We really don't know the situation. I feel terrible for the little baby, and I'm glad she survived; and I agree that abandoning a newborn is a terrible thing to do. The mother should definitely be prosecuted unless there were in fact major extenuating circumstances. It's just that I've seen a lot of bad things and a lot of abused women-and I hesitate to judge without knowing more.

oh, he!! no! they are too busy wringing their hands and talking trash about that good fer nothin' girl that went got herself all knocked up....

TampaBay and Yeah et al. Yup! I've been active in the prolife movement since before Roe v. Wade and, from my own obsevation, I know that a lot of prolifers adopt, even special needs children. You are just going along with stereotypes.

Hummm......you really COULD replace christian with muslim, right? I mean really, there are bad seeds everywhere and they label themselves what they want. The point being christ, or mohammed, are suppose to give you a better way to live but I've yet to see any one person truly live up to what they say they believe in. Christian, Muslim, Zeusism, Mother Nature....all fantasy's that people use to say "I'm better than you" "You're not really a true christian, muslim etc" I guess it makes you feel better about yourself to THINK you are one of, if not the only, true believer.....yeah right, in fantasy maybe!!!

mouse: You're correct in that most people of ANY religion fail to live up to their beliefs. Why? Because we're flawed humans and our nature is sinful. Christianity is the only religion where someone was tortured and died for US to redeem us. Buddah didn't. Zeus isn't even real. Muhammad didn't. That's called unconditional love. There IS only one way -- through Jesus. If you don't believe me, you'll find out after you die, but then it'll be too late because you know and still haven't accepted this fact.

GEM217: So you are saying that anybody in this world who has never been exposed or given a choice for Christianity is forever condemned? That is the major flaw that I see with Christianity.

I find some of these comments rather appauling.

First of all, I don't condemn the female for getting pregnant. **** happens and that's life, you have to deal with it. But I am DISGUSTED with the "choice" to purposely leave an innocent new born human being OUTSIDE unattended in any condition. There is no excuse for that. I can understand someone refusing responsibility of their baby but my mind cannot even begin to fathom actually leaving a child outside to die like it's an infested rat. I just cannot comprehend this. Honestly. To leave an innocent child to die outside...wow...

For the people that excuse the mother (no matter her age or background), I am truly ashamed that you are my fellow countrymen. How are her actions justified in any way? This is evil in it's sickest form.

why is it a bright side not to get an abortion when you know you cannot care for a child and you are going to get rid of it by putting "it" out with the trash ? An abortion is clean, efficient and avoids such conditions later. The fetus is not viable and is not considered alive, even though there is a heartbeat. It is an organic response. I would think many people who have any sense and are not brainwashed by some religious views can see an abortion in this case would have been a good choice.

I accidentally gave you a "1 up" when actually I meant to mark your comment as "no value".

"The fetus is not viable and is not considered alive, even though there is a heartbeat. It is an organic response."

^Not only is that purely your opinion, it boggles my mind that there are imbecilic people that think a beating heart is equivalent to "not alive"....wow we are a generation full of geniuses.

Immediately after giving birth, mothers usually are not ready for a nice long run. How do all these posters jusk know that it was the mother who abandoned the baby? Maybe it was the baby's father, or any one, two, three or all four of the grandparents or any combination thereof. Maybe it was the midwife. or {"midwife,"} as the case may be. Maybe it was a friend. Maybe the mother was told the baby would be taken to a police station or firehouse. Maybe is was the mother, but who knows???

There are thousands of children in the foster care system waiting to be adopted. If you would love to raise a child as your own, why don't you go apply to adopt one of them?

Enough: Have you??

Snickers- You have compassion; that's an excellent quality to have as a parent. Someday, somehow, you'll have a child of your own. My prayers are with you on your journey.

Enough: Your comment was out of line. We don't know Snickers' situation. Not every person is easily able to just adopt or get into fostercare. Although you are not worth my time, I can't help but take a moment to think about all the ignorant bafoons in this generation who make this country a worse place to live.

I hope she is not told for a very long time, if ever how she was found. No one likes to hear such a sad reality.

@ Saron,

This girl will be a lucky girl, I just know it.

Saron I completely agree with you.

Best comment I've read so far.

LOL Josh........I've been to many places, unfortunately it happens all over.............but I get what you are saying as I am a social liberal living in the state of Texas dodging bullets, not real ones, every day......

Because sex, babies, abandonment and social issues exist in no other state? Which perfect state do you live in? I can't wait to google the statistics in your perfect world.

@ Josh Its all about Texas right? Texas is the culprit. That's just rich ain't it. Jealousy is an ugly thing don't you think? Wealthiest state around and self sufficient on every level but lets blame the state of Texas for the actions of people within its borders. No one blames California for Charles Manson or Wisconsin isn't blamed for Jeffrey Dahmer but let someone pick their but in Texas and see if it doesn't get spread around that Texas is the worst place on the planet. Sounds like "state envy" to me.

@ mouse Let me guess, social liberal and fiscally conservative? I hope not because those two can't live within a vacuum inside a test tube during a controlled experiment in a laboratory somewhere in space.

I live in Texas.

Yes, let's wait until all the babies are born with noone to care for them and then later try and figure things out.....what is tired, lame and patently ridiculous is that you think you can tell me what to do with MY BODY!!! I don't believe in abortion but I believe in taking care of the children living in poverty, by no fault of their own, in the here and now. Grow up and get real. Kids are having sex, they will continue to have sex until the world can no longer sustain itself so let's prevent pregnancy BEFORE it ever happens. Then we don't need to worry about abortion.

trying2serve: YES!!!!

trying2serve - It must be nice to be perfect.

Mouse: "don't tell me what to do with MY body" cool, so since I can't tell you what to do with your body why don't you open your legs without thinking about protection and then when you get pregnant you can decide if you want to kill the innocent life within you. You say you dont believe in abortion yet your statement screams it out loud.

Suze the Muze: When did he claim to be "perfect" in his statement? Are you delusional?? Typical feminazi.

Or maybe she's 12 and was raped by her mother's boyfriend, or her stepfather, or her teacher. All we know is that the baby was abandoned; we don't know why. If we find out that the mother did it in cold blood and not because she was a scared, abused child, I'll support your punishment.

deal

sterilize her then put her in a foster home where she learns to care for orphans.

tom & Lee et al = = = = WHY are you letting baby daddy off the hook ???

See post 4.7

I'm glad that the women you know all have complete control over their lives. Where you are, no eleven year old girl will ever find herself pregnant by a male relative.

/sarcasm

What the heck does PP have to do with this article?

Lot of assuming by the people posting here. Newborn child with freshly cut, unclamped umbilical cord. I would tend to doubt the mother was in any condition to be the perpetrator of the dumping of the child. Giving birth isn't exactly easy, you don't tend to jump up and start roaming around right away.

I live in Texas too allison, you are hanging out with the wrong people!!!!!

Good grief that's all they teach them in school today. They are even giving out condoms to elementary kids now. They can get an abortion with out their parents ever finding out about it. I just think a child giving birth to another child , scared to death not knowing where to turn. It's not about any religion as some suggest it's no morals any more. Parents are not parenting they want to be their kids best friend not a mom or dad. Just look at some of the post here no wonder the girl left the baby like that seems not to many here with any sense either.

Allison,

Allowing you to vote is like sticking a gun to your head. Please leave Texas and never come back.

Allison:

You have a right to your opinion, and I too have differences with the GOP, but your accusations and statements can be leveled at the Democrats as well. And there are good people, who happen to be GOP who feel they too are in a "totalitarian" regime in a blue state.

For you information, Gerrymandering is named after Elbridge Gerry, who is often credited with initiating the practice - and was a Democrat...

Might want to moderate your stance a bit - we are all Americans, please...

Peace :)

Cool I forgot that the democratic party can do no wrong.

Funny how the opposition (the right) is taunted with no end and that the democratic party is depicted as the savior of the American people. funny how the media protects the left so much...hmm money has nothing to do with this right?

This is not a socialist country, this is a fascist country!!!!

I hate to just post an article but this could have some credence here.

Based on a study released by Dallas Women's Foundation, sex trafficking of young girls is not an isolated phenomenon, but a widespread criminal activity in Texas. The research found that 740 girls under age 18 were documented being marketed for sex during a 30-day period in Texas, of whom 712 of these girls were being marketed through Internet classified web sites and 28 were being marketed through escort services. More information concluded from the research is that there are more girls being trafficked for sex in Texas during one month than there are women killed in domestic violence with former or current husbands, intimate partners or boyfriends in Texas over an entire year. There are more girls being trafficked for sex in Texas during one month than there are females of all ages who died from complication due to AIDS in one year in Texas. And finally, there are more girls being trafficked for sex in Texas during one month than there are teen girls who died by suicide, homicide, and accidents in the state in one year.