Zach LarkinsRUNNIN' BACK TO SASKATOON
This title comes from a Guess Who hit from some years ago. Nothing ever happens in Saskatchewan which has Saskatoon as its provincial capital. It's a nice little chunk of land we keep around to fill in some space between Manitoba and Alberta, filled with wheat fields and some big honkin' combines to bring in the crops. They don't even change their clocks when DST kicks in. How's that for being laid back? But they've been in the news recently.
Just the other day, for the second time in four months, a woman gave birth and abandoned the child. The first woman to do this, wrapped the little nipper in a blanket and towel and left him on a doorstep in -30*C weather. Thankfully, he was found in time and rescued. This time, the mother decided to give birth during a shopping expedition at the local Wal-Mart.
She gave birth within 14 minutes of entering a washroom at the store and, gee, she walked out empty handed. She had left the child face down in a toilet.
Store management found the little one and rescued it and the woman has since come forward to take credit for her deed. Now the big question is, what to do with her? Some say she needs counseling, others say she needs jail. The Crown has not decided yet whether to press charges or not. Let me make it easy for them. Whack her with the full brunt of the law. This is not a mere case of child abandonment. This is attempted murder.
Dr. Donna Stewart, speaking on the subject, says there is nothing for society to gain by throwing the book at this miscreant. She's right. However, the mother must be made to pay for her outrageous behaviour and start to learn a little right from wrong. Stewart says that many of these types of mothers come from broken homes or dysfunctional families. They get no support from outside agencies and at times the mother's father may be the father of her child. Again, she's probably right. Let's take a moment here to weep for the true victim, Mommy. Good luck. She won't see any tears rolling down my cheeks.
How much of a safety net do we have to give these people? Unless they've been living in a cave since, like forever, they must know there are organizations out there that can help them. Ashamed to go home and tell Mom and Dad you're knocked up? Maybe you should have thought of that before you jumped in the sack with Lance the quarterback. By the way, this woman was 24 years old, so save me the trouble of saying every young girl can make a mistake. She ain't 12 or 13 folks.
There are ‘safe' houses where she deposit the child if she doesn't want it. And she doesn't even have to do it. The child can be left by a family member, neighbour, relative or the mom herself. No questions asked. Give her points for not aborting the child. Take them away for her trying to murder it.
This liberalized thinking of providing that cradle to grave support for any and all ills is what's wrong with this country. People grow up with absolutely no sense of responsibility and expect everyone around them to bail them out of a jam. Unless this woman is a Cretan personified, she had to know what her options were.
I wouldn't advocate having her sterilized, although the thought did cross my mind. She can get counseling in prison while she's learning a lesson. There should be no excuse for her to do hard time. Her baby would have done a lot harder.
Just the other day, for the second time in four months, a woman gave birth and abandoned the child. The first woman to do this, wrapped the little nipper in a blanket and towel and left him on a doorstep in -30*C weather. Thankfully, he was found in time and rescued. This time, the mother decided to give birth during a shopping expedition at the local Wal-Mart.
She gave birth within 14 minutes of entering a washroom at the store and, gee, she walked out empty handed. She had left the child face down in a toilet.
Store management found the little one and rescued it and the woman has since come forward to take credit for her deed. Now the big question is, what to do with her? Some say she needs counseling, others say she needs jail. The Crown has not decided yet whether to press charges or not. Let me make it easy for them. Whack her with the full brunt of the law. This is not a mere case of child abandonment. This is attempted murder.
Dr. Donna Stewart, speaking on the subject, says there is nothing for society to gain by throwing the book at this miscreant. She's right. However, the mother must be made to pay for her outrageous behaviour and start to learn a little right from wrong. Stewart says that many of these types of mothers come from broken homes or dysfunctional families. They get no support from outside agencies and at times the mother's father may be the father of her child. Again, she's probably right. Let's take a moment here to weep for the true victim, Mommy. Good luck. She won't see any tears rolling down my cheeks.
How much of a safety net do we have to give these people? Unless they've been living in a cave since, like forever, they must know there are organizations out there that can help them. Ashamed to go home and tell Mom and Dad you're knocked up? Maybe you should have thought of that before you jumped in the sack with Lance the quarterback. By the way, this woman was 24 years old, so save me the trouble of saying every young girl can make a mistake. She ain't 12 or 13 folks.
There are ‘safe' houses where she deposit the child if she doesn't want it. And she doesn't even have to do it. The child can be left by a family member, neighbour, relative or the mom herself. No questions asked. Give her points for not aborting the child. Take them away for her trying to murder it.
This liberalized thinking of providing that cradle to grave support for any and all ills is what's wrong with this country. People grow up with absolutely no sense of responsibility and expect everyone around them to bail them out of a jam. Unless this woman is a Cretan personified, she had to know what her options were.
I wouldn't advocate having her sterilized, although the thought did cross my mind. She can get counseling in prison while she's learning a lesson. There should be no excuse for her to do hard time. Her baby would have done a lot harder.
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I say do all three, give her counselling, lock her ass up for atttempted murder, THEN have her mandatorily sterilized!
Gotta cover all your bases yanno...
We get cases like this all the time down here and there's no damned excuse for them...Stupidity should be painful..there are so many free resources available to women these days in that situation, that ignorance isn't going to cut it anymore as an excuse...
Young, underage girls can even get free birth control from Planned Parenthood now without the consent of their parents...so if someone is going to be thoughtlessly permiscuous, that's the place to go...
I'm with both of you guys...there's NO excuse...
Great post as always buddy,
Nick
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to jail, she needs to go face first into a Wal-mart toilet.
For a lonnnnnng time.
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Not Canada--you guys' truckstops are probably squeaky-clean, LOL
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