there's a girl in the night

Right now, word is breaking across the country that a fifteen year old girl in Bergenfield, NJ will soon be charged with attempted murder for throwing her newborn son into a garbage can.

Soon, people will hypothesize about what led this girl to do something so obviously hideous; what possessed her to go to these lengths to avoid being a mother. People will call for her death, whether she's a juvenile or not. People will question why her parents did not, in a nine month period, realize that there daughter was pregnant.

Talking heads on Fox News and CNN will question the repurcussions of such an action. Bill O'Reilly and Nancy Grace, the collective face of everything that's wrong with the national news media, will angrily declare that there is no fathomable reason why this should have happened.

But who will stand up for the girl? It will be easy to simply dismiss her as an alleged murderer but will anyone wonder, silently or aloud, what is wrong with a world that fosters this kind of thing? Will anyone cry for the new mother, so scared at the thought of motherhood that she saw no other option than to toss her child away?

Sitting here tonight in the comfort of home, I'm sad for this young girl. I'm sad for the infant clinging to life. I'm sad for the parents who didn't know that they were grandparents. I'm sad for the youth of this country. It's hard being a kid.

I don't know what else to say right now. I was looking for something to blog about because it's been awhile and this is what came up. So that's that for now.