Newborn Thrown From 8th Floor Apartment
The second case of infanticide this year
SINGAPORE -- The newborn baby thrown down a block of flats in Woodlands on Monday was the second case of infanticide this year.
The newborn baby girl was found at about 12.30pm on Monday.
Placed in a plastic bag, she was flung off from the eighth floor of Block 678, Woodlands Avenue 6.
A 16-year-old girl was arrested and the case classified as infanticide.
But why do some mothers go through pregnancy, only to abandon their babies later?
Mr John Vijayan, Singapore Planned Parenthood Association, said: "It could be that the girl is going through post-natal blues and she does not even know what she has done. She is not ready for motherhood and face the world that she is now a mother.
"The other reason could be that she could be fearing what would she do with a kid? You know there is no father, and probably no parental support.
"She will be just lost and keeping away from her family or even the boyfriend got her pregnant and just want go get rid of it."
Mr Vijayan, who has been counselling troubled teens for about 20 years, added that usually without family support, the teenager will feel that she had come to a brick wall and decide to take things in her own hands.
Meanwhile, neighbours say they were shocked and saddened by the incident.
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Posted by Editor at February 24, 2005 07:08 PM
