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Fourteen year old strangles new born

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#1 ·
A pregnant 14-year-old Florida girl delivered a baby boy in her parents’ bathroom and then strangling the infant to death, hiding his body in a box, law enforcement officials said Friday.

Cassidy Goodson, of Lakeland, Fla. has been charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse in connection with the death of her newborn son.

Investigators are deciding whether to charge her as an adult, The Ledger.com reported.

“Her son was still connected to her by the umbilical cord when she choked him to death," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference Friday. "I just can't get over that."

Goodson gave birth to the 9.5 pound, 20.4-inch baby on Sept. 19 and used scissors to help “pry the baby out,” investigators said.

She stuffed a towel in her own mouth and turned on the faucet so her parents wouldn’t hear any noise, the teen told investigators.

After delivering the baby in the toilet, she felt for his pulse and determined he was alive. Then she strangled him, squeezing his neck for “about a minute” until he wasn’t breathing, Judd said.

Goodson then showered with the dead infant and placed his body in a box which she buried in dirty laundry in her room, Judd said.

Her mother, Teresa Goodson, noticed a foul odor in her room three days later and found the baby’s remains. The mother called her sisters, who in turn called 911, authorities said.

A freshman in high school, Goodson is 5 foot 3 and weighs about 100 pounds, police said. She hid her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes.

Though other people had become suspicious that the teen was pregnant over the summer, her mother was “in complete denial,” Judd said.

Goodson at first told investigators that she had suffered a miscarriage, but an autopsy revealed the baby was full term and had died of asphyxia from strangulation.

Detectives were working to determine the father’s identity, Judd said.

"Everybody's a loser here, but this 14-year-old child murdered her infant baby, which was successfully delivered at home," Judd said.

Investigators said the teen showed little emotion during questioning, but when asked why she did it, she responded that she didn’t want to change the relationship with her family, Tampa Bay Online reported.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...n-baby-boy-parents-bathroom-article-1.1171085
 
#33 ·
Sickening. Feel terrible after reading about a thing like this. Got me thinking about how many cases there are where the mothers get away with it by actually bothering to cover their deeds up so they don't get caught. Can't believe the parents didn't do anything about it and none of her teachers talked to her about the situation.
 
#36 ·
The fear and panic of having a child in secret, never mind being 14 with probably zilch parental support? The hormones of pregnancy and adolescence can drive you to do terrible things. This is a tragedy brought upon by fear and guilt, what do your criticisms do? Prove that you're better than her? Better than a moron in a fucked up situation? Congratulations. You win.
 
#38 ·
This is a very sad situation brought on by a human being who just isn't thinking straight, just seems like one thing escalated to another until the ultimate moment of desperation. Honestly this girl is far from 'evil' really, and I hate to see the comments that are like "Throw her in a pit and burn her! No Trial!" because you don't sound so great yourself if you say stuff like this.
 
#41 ·
I think the mother is partly to blame for this. (There was no mention of a father so I'm assuming the mother raised her by herself) Maybe if she payed attention to the daughter and noticed she was pregnant baggy clothes or not, maybe they could have talked about whether to keep the baby or not. Instead her daughter carried the burden all alone, and in the end did something really drastic.

I'm not saying what she did was right either, she should definitely go to prison, even at 14 she knows right from wrong, I don't have any doubt about that. I just hope the mother carries that guilt for the rest of her life, for being a lousy mother.
 
#46 ·
I absolutely 100% blame the parents and society.

The poor girl was obviously not of sound mind AT ALL and I don't know how she could do something so despicable.

But consider the circumstaces she must have been facing to go through with something like that.

The whole family are a bunch of cunts tbf.
 
#48 · (Edited)
As horrifying as it is, I find myself surprised firstly that she's smart enough to hide her pregnancy and give birth without anyone noticing then stupid enough to not deal w/the body.

Parents sometimes tend to not notice obvious things about their children, it doesn't make them ignorant or stupid. If you don't expect your little 14 y/o to get pregnant then when she does seem to put on a bit of a belly you're perhaps going to turn a blind eye b/c you don't want to upset her (I'll assume she was hormonal and a nightmare to live with). When I take E pills or sniff (or both together) my eyes will go west, an absolutely animated. It's noted mine go weirder than most peoples and basically I'm scary looking and very obvious. So I come into my parent's house in the morning, might even have them pick me up at the station and they just don't notice my eyes no matter how obvious it is. They don't expect me on drugs at all, therefore they don't see it.
 
#52 ·
According to the article, others were suspicious that she was pregnant, but the mother was in "complete denial" so with all these suspicions being brought up around her you'd think the least she could do is check. It's possible that she just couldn't allow herself to accept that her 14 year old daughter was having sex and was pregnant. Either way that's poor parenting on her part.

Also wouldn't the mother consider it odd that her daughter was all of a sudden wearing clothes that were several sizes too big for 9 months? This is a 100 pound girl carrying a 9.5 pound baby, just the baby itself is nearly a tenth of her body weight she would have been showing.

This is why I don't have one iota of sympathy for the mother, she played a part in the death of this baby, she might not have been the one strangling it, but if she had done a better job of parenting, this tragedy could well have been prevented.
 
#53 ·
And considering the end term of her pregnancy assuming it was recent (didn't check dates) it was summer so it would have been hot as all hell piling on clothes to hide the bump. Stupid girl should know (most times) family is thicker than blood. Generally there is someone in the family that will always be there for a particular family member.
 
#54 · (Edited)
I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that the mother is an awful human being just yet. Is she stupid for being so emotional and in denial she didn't do anything? Yes. But sometimes kids are just fuck ups no matter what their parents do. And i am sure it is very hard to see your daughter be such a little slut, piece of shit despite thinking you are raising them well. Some parents just cannot think logically when it comes to their own children and just cannot believe anything bad. Cant imagine the pain seeing your own child become such an evil, disgusting piece of shit and not have the mental capacity to do anything to stop it.

Now chances are they are just a scummy ******* family and the mother is just trailer trash and some sort of investigation should be done in terms of whether or not criminal charges should be brought on the mother, which i'm sure there will be. And why didn't her teachers do anything about this? I refuse to believe people couldn't tell she was pregnant. What kind of 14 year old doesn't take gym class? Yes it was summer but how likely is it that even at 6 months, a 5 foot, 100lbs girl isn't showing.
 
#71 ·
I'm sorry, but a) do you not consider giving birth in a bathroom as a great length to go to hide a pregnancy? and b) do you not consider a teenage pregnancy to be a complicated issue? jesus christ :downing

As far as leniency goes, yeah being raped could maybe knock a bit off her lengthy jail sentence. It doesn't excuse the fact she murdered her baby. Thinking of a hypothetical situation to make this girl appear in a better light is ridiculous. She likely wasn't raped, she deserves no sympathy here and the fact you're conceiving scenarios in which she's a victim is utterly ridiculous.
 
#73 ·
I'm sorry, but a) do you not consider giving birth in a bathroom as a great length to go to hide a pregnancy? and b) do you not consider a teenage pregnancy to be a complicated issue? jesus christ :downing
Uh, I actually asked YOU to think about her method of giving birth because it was so primitive and barbaric. It is going to great lengths, but it is NOT going to great lengths to HIDE the pregnancy as you claim. It should be so damn obvious to any parent in the history of the world if their daughter is carrying a newborn in them at 6-9 months. I mean, think about how big those "baggy" clothes would have to be to hide a baby on her small frame. You'd have to take a shirt off of Rick Ross.

If I had a daughter, I'd like to think that I'd be a good enough and involved parent to recognize a full term pregnancy.

As far as leniency goes, yeah being raped could maybe knock a bit off her lengthy jail sentence. It doesn't excuse the fact she murdered her baby. Thinking of a hypothetical situation to make this girl appear in a better light is ridiculous. She likely wasn't raped, she deserves no sympathy here and the fact you're conceiving scenarios in which she's a victim is utterly ridiculous.
It sure doesn't. She needs to be punished and make her realize that there are consequences for her actions. I'm just saying to all the people who want her tried as an adult or to kill her or whatever that 14 years old is a long, long way from adult level thinking. If she had taken this to an abortion clinic 4 months ago it would've been perfectly legal and the fetus just as alive as it was when she strangled him.
 
#72 ·
lol @ anyone suggesting that a 14 year old wouldn't know better. just because she isn't an adult yet doesn't mean she wasn't well aware of the situation at hand. you're defending a murderer simply because she's underage and could have been raped(she likely wasn't). Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
 
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