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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Two Texas 14-Year Olds Give Birth

Two ugly stories in the same news cycle of Texas 14-year olds giving birth:
BAYTOWN, Texas — A 14-year-old Texas teenager on Wednesday gave birth in the bathroom of a middle school but the baby died when the mother allegedly tried to flush it, MyFOXHouston.com reports.

Police said the student told counselors she had given birth and attempted to flush the baby inside a restroom at Cedar Bayou Jr. High School, the story says.

The teen was taken to the hospital and reported to be in stable condition.

And this:
HOUSTON — A 14-year-old girl who delivered a stillborn fetus in the bathroom of an airplane on her way back from a middle-school field trip will not be charged with any wrongdoing, Houston police said Wednesday.

The Harris County District Attorney's office decided not to pursue charges against the girl, who disposed of the fetus in a waste can. The students and their chaperones were returning from New York aboard a March 30 Continental Airlines flight.

Houston homicide investigators interviewed both the girl and a 14-year-old boy believed to be the father.

The girl, who authorities have not identified, told police she didn't know she was pregnant. Preliminary autopsy results indicated the fetus was stillborn and not viable, police said

The Boeing 737 plane landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport on a non-stop flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport. The plane, which was about 30 minutes late, carried 144 passengers and six crew members.

A cleaning crew found the fetus inside a wastebasket in the bathroom of a Continental Airlines plane about 15 minutes after the plane landed.

The girl in the second story was returning home from a school trip to New York. Last June I went on a high school orchestra trip to New York City and I'm glad to say that none of the kids gave birth in the airplane on the way back to California.

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