This story is a crazy-maker. Ellis County Jailers ought to be whipped for ignoring her pleas for help. She was in jail for drug issues, she was pregnant, and her cries for help were ignored, because the jailers decided she was faking it, then they said she forced the delivery. I don't care. She was in the wrong facility in the first place, She had a drug problem that needed to be stopped, and nobody's there to help pregnant women who are addicted to drugs. The baby is a mess, born premature, no matter how it was born, it took her hours to even have someone come around and assist her, there was no doctor on hand to check her, and I don't think that unborn child deserved to be born on a damn jail cell floor. Lord have mercy.
If it fails, it's not help.
This story comes from USA Today:
DALLAS — A woman, who was five months pregnant, said officials at a Texas jail ignored her repeated pleas for help while she was in labor last week, which resulted in her giving birth to her son alone in jail cell.
"I delivered a 1-pound, 2-ounce baby in that single cell screaming for hours, begging them to come and help me," said Shaye Bear. "The guards would walk by and tell me they wouldn't do nothing for me until I had that baby in that cell."
Bear, 25, was in an Ellis County, Texas, jail Thursday when she went into labor.
“I had my baby in my hands,” she said.
The premature baby she named Cashh now clings to life in Cook’s Children Medical Center in Fort Worth.
The Texas Rangers are investigating the circumstances surrounding Cashh’s birth. A spokesman declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. ~ USA Today
That baby deserved better and so did its mother, I don't care what the moral issue people had with her, she was with child, and she was in agonizing labor for hours. It's her third kid, according to the story. I think the Ellis County system owes this woman first-rate drug addiction cure, and give her the friends who will insure that she remains drug free until that child of hers graduates from high school. If she can't, and if she prefers, she could be sterilized if she elects not to reform her drug use and her children put into state custody, not family, because that did not work before. Look at the outcome. It takes professionals to deal with a person like Mrs. Bear, if they have to keep her under lock and key for 18 years. She needs care, education or re-education, and the ability to develop self-esteem that will get her through life. Somewhere along the line of her life, she took a wrong turn. And drug (including alcohol and cannabis) addiction is the biggest fiend in the world, and has the consequence of producing newborns who are addicted to their mother's substances.DALLAS — A woman, who was five months pregnant, said officials at a Texas jail ignored her repeated pleas for help while she was in labor last week, which resulted in her giving birth to her son alone in jail cell.
"I delivered a 1-pound, 2-ounce baby in that single cell screaming for hours, begging them to come and help me," said Shaye Bear. "The guards would walk by and tell me they wouldn't do nothing for me until I had that baby in that cell."
Bear, 25, was in an Ellis County, Texas, jail Thursday when she went into labor.
“I had my baby in my hands,” she said.
The premature baby she named Cashh now clings to life in Cook’s Children Medical Center in Fort Worth.
The Texas Rangers are investigating the circumstances surrounding Cashh’s birth. A spokesman declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. ~ USA Today
If it fails, it's not help.