Who called the media? Or were they just listening to a police scanner.
No idea.
The default reaction of the police, in all situations, is an overreaction. It HAS to be that way because peoples lives are at stake and you don't know the exact reaction needed until later and by then it might be too late.
What did they think the danger was in this instance? That the foetus would rise from the dead and attach itself to someone's face and take over their brain? That the poor girl was going to attack someone with parts of her miscarriage?
Pregnancy is not criminal. You are making that up.
Tell that to the many women who are in prison for miscarrying and for stillbirths. Hell,
they've even arrested and tied a woman's legs together while she was in labour and dragged her to a hospital and tried to cut her open without her consent because she chose to deliver naturally in a home birth. I can
only wish that I was making it up.
Live babies have been abandoned in high school toilets before. Until the police investigate the possibility of a crime, they don't know. And if they don't immediately treat the scene as a crime scene, evidence gets destroyed. They HAVE to treat it as a crime from the start.
Why?
Women miscarry into toilets all the time. It's actually quite common.
I don't see how or why the response should have been dozens of armed police officers with a helicopter buzzing over head.
You're not listening. I already answered all of that. Again, the police were there:
1. To investigate a possible crime.
2. To find a girl who was in need of medical attention, a witness and a possible suspect in #1.
A suspect for what?
They already said that the foetus was so small, they could not even determine how many weeks it was. It was apparently "tiny". So why would they treat her as a suspect at all?
leopold said:
yes, a POSSIBLE miscarriage, and EQUALLY possibly a deliberately terminated pregnancy.
they did not know the story bells.
Since when is termination so illegal that it requires dozens of armed police officers and a helicopter buzzing over head? So why is it illegal
if she did terminate her pregnancy?
this is where she screwed up, SHE should have reported it.
Why?
More than likely she was in shock. Miscarriage is a shocking experience. She probably did not even know what to do. Remember, she's just a kid.
The UK has great guidelines for miscarriage.
This bit stood out:
If you miscarry at home or somewhere other than a hospital, you are most likely to pass the remains of the pregnancy into the toilet (this could happen in hospital too). You may look to see what has come away and you might see a pregnancy sac and/or fetus, or perhaps something that you think might be the fetus. You may decide simply to flush the toilet – many people do that automatically – or perhaps to remove the sac or fetus for a closer look. That’s also a very natural thing to do.
Whether or not you see a recognisable fetus, however tiny, you may wonder what to do with it. Flushing it down the toilet may seem right or it may not:
if the girl used her brain, then you would be correct.
ONE officer would have sufficed.
as it was, SHE screwed up by not reporting it.
locking down schools, what kind of society are we breeding here?
Well, you try and pass a giant blood clot out of your vagina, bleed profusely, realise that your baby was that blood clot and in the shock and panic (believe me, I've seen an experienced mid-wife come to pieces at finding a miscarriage in a toilet, not to mention the mother and myself), think about what the correct form of action should be in who you should be reporting it to, and tell me how you go. Remember, she's just a kid. If an experienced midwife had to be sent home from the shock of it, how well do you think a teenage girl is going to handle it? Because as an adult, I sure as hell didn't handle seeing it. The poor woman who delivered it did not handle it well at all, she completely fell apart. The midwife shook like a leaf and was in tears after the event. How well do you think a teenage girl is going to handle it?
As I said before, none of this is illegal. So treating her like a suspect when she had done nothing wrong is ridiculous. And frankly, the reaction by the police is downright stupid. One or possibly two would have sufficed in trying to find her. Their biggest concern should have been for her safety and paramedics should have been the ones swarming the schools looking for her to be honest, to make sure she was alright. Not armed police officers. What a shame they saw her as a suspect instead. They did more harm than good.
