Nobody Saw This Coming

Being a teenager is not easy, let alone one who has given birth recently. Jane´s parents had died in a car accident when she was three and she had to be brought up by her maternal grandmother. When Jane got pregnant, she knew that it would change her life. She was only 15 when she had spent the night with a boy who do not want to date her but just have sex. From this one-time event she got pregnant.

The first person she told, of course, was him who denied that he was the father because taking her to bed was pretty easy. Sadly, she realized that insisting on talking to him would not help her at all, so she went home and decided to tell her grandmother that she was pregnant and wanted to terminate it. Her grandmother was more horrified at the abortion then actually her being pregnant at 15. Yes, she was only 15 and by the time she gave birth to this baby she would have turned 16. Her grandmother convinced her to keep the baby and that they would raise it together Because of her religious beliefs, the grandmother said that having an abortion was much worse than actually having the baby. Jane agreed.

Two months had gone by since Matthew was born. He was a cute and quiet baby compared to others in the neighborhood, however, Jane didn't really enjoy taking care of him and she blamed him for not allowing her to go out with her friends work to do whatever she fancied. He had deprived her of her freedom. It was all his fault she repeated like a mantra.  

One night she got an invitation to go to a party downtown. The person who invited her was her present boyfriend. He didn't mind that she had a baby, but he wanted her to spend some time with him without the baby around. Unfortunately, that night her grandmother said she had a special event at church and she wouldn't be able to stay home with little Mathew.

The following events nobody expected. Jane took the baby to her room after  the grandmother had left and decided that to free her from him. She would simulate an accident and end his life. First, she gave him some rubbing alcohol to drink and nothing happened. Then, she tried to choke him, but nothing happened. She threw him on the floor thinking that by hitting his head he would die, but that didn't happen.  She ran to the laundry room got a pail and filled it halfway with water then she took the baby and dumped his head in the pail until the bubbles stopped rising to the surface. At this exact minute her boyfriend arrived saw the horror that had happened. He immediately called the police.

At the police station she did not regret what she had done at all and she told the officers all the details that led to Matthew´s death. She was enraged that her boyfriend looked at her before she got into the police car and yelled that she was a monster and he wanted nothing to do with her.

Because of her age she did not go to prison and due to the coronavirus, she was not sent to the correctional center. She sent to an orphanage instead and there there was a little boy who was two months old and in her mind,  she saw Matthew. To her horror there he was alive and once again her freedom would be taken away from her, she had to get rid of him. When one of these attendants saw the anger and evilness in her eyes, she quickly grabbed the baby and took it to another room. The attendant told the police that Jane could not stay in that house because she was a threat to the other children. To no avail, since they were not putting kids or anybody in correctional homes or prisons because of the pandemic, they just locked Jane up in a room all by herself.

Poor, Matthew. May he rest in peace.

Written: July 15, 2020 (Based on true facts. The names used are fictional.)

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