14 y.o strangles and kills newborn

This is from Oct. not sure if it has been posted yet, but do you think she should be charged as an adult?
Why or why not?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/cassidy-goodson-kills-murders-chokes-newborn-baby_n_1928754.html


A 14-year-old is accused of choking her newborn to death while the baby was still attached to her by the umbilical cord.
Cassidy Goodson of Lakeland, Fla., is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, according to theLedger.
Goodson gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her home on Sept. 19, ABC News reports.
Police say the high school freshman ultimately used scissors to pry the baby out of her body and into the toilet. Lifting the baby out of the toilet, Goodson "placed her hands on the infant's neck and squeezed until he wasn't moving or breathing any longer," according to a statement released by Polk County Sheriff's Office on Friday.
Goodson allegedly killed the child because she "didn't know what to do with it," officials told WTSP.
Goodson had reportedly been wearing baggy clothes to hide from her family that she was pregnant. Two aunts suspected the teen was pregnant, but the girl's mother, Teresa Goodson, "was in complete denial," Sheriff Grady Judd told the Ledger.
As evidence that she wasn't pregnant, Cassidy Goodson had shown her mother two home pregnancy tests that turned up negative. However, the teen had conducted the tests completely alone.
Three days after the birth, the Sheriff's Office received a call reporting that Teresa Goodson, Cassidy Goodson's mother, had found a dead baby inside a shoe box in her home. Teresa Goodson said she found the body when she noticed an odor coming from her daughter's bedroom.
Judd believes that Cassidy Goodson's young age should be taken into account. "Let's remember she is a child," he said. "Where was her support system?"
Officials are considering charging adults who may have known about the pregnancy and kept it a secret. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to charge Cassidy Goodson as an adult.
Investigators are currently trying to determine the baby's father.

I do remember seeing this posted before.

Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if she really just felt no remorse over killing the baby or if her home life was so severe that she resorted to that out of fear.

No I don't think she should be charged as an adult. I think she should be put in an involuntary inpatient setting for a while and get some serious help.

My first reaction is hell yes she should be charged as an adult.

But I don't know what her home life was like... Tough call. I honestly don't know.

Quoting Anthony's Mommy ♥:" I do remember seeing this posted before. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if she really just felt ... [snip!] ... she really just felt no remorse over killing the baby or if her home life was so severe that she resorted to that out of fear."

I agree.

I think that she shouldnt be charged. I think she should get help to help her cope.

Quoting Anthony's Mommy ♥:" I do remember seeing this posted before. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know if she really just felt ... [snip!] ... she really just felt no remorse over killing the baby or if her home life was so severe that she resorted to that out of fear."

I agree, I think the adults in her life should feel somewhat responsible for not paying more attention. She's a tiny girl, baggy clothes or not, at some point someone had to have brushed up against her belly or SOMETHING.

Yep. She had around 8 months to figure out what she would do with that baby and where she could go.

Its true, where was her support system??

She is only 14, but she knows the difference between whats right and whats wrong. Did she really think she could get away with killing her baby and stashing it under her bed? Its sick.

I remember this too. Why couldn't she just take the infant to the hospital or a firestation? There were other options, but as to whether or not she she should be charged as an adult, idk. It's too sad to even think about  

That's really sad. Some teens are really afraid of their parents and how they may react to news of a pregnancy. I'm not justifying what she did since there is no reason in this world to kill a tiny little newborn baby but I'm just saying that she was probably really scared, especially at 14! I don't think she should necessarily be tried as an adult.... She wasn't in the right state of mind and obviously didn't think things through.

Quoting ☮Scarlet Begonia:" Yep. She had around 8 months to figure out what she would do with that baby and where she could go."

When you were 14 could you make a choice like that? Especially if you had no support system?

I am going to say yes..she should be charged.

Quoting Mrs. Daryl Dixon:" I agree, I think the adults in her life should feel somewhat responsible for not paying more attention. ... [snip!] ... She's a tiny girl, baggy clothes or not, at some point someone had to have brushed up against her belly or SOMETHING."

Yeah, you have to wonder what is going on in that house. My step-sister and I were left alone for weeks at a time as teenagers and our parents were drug addicts and used to make us do it with them, and she did end up pregnant as a teen. They didn't notice until she was 6 months when it was blatantly obvious. They tried to force her and convince her to find a place to get a late abortion and she refused but if it would have been the other way around I don't know that I wouldn't have been surprised if something horrible would have happened because it was constant abuse and neglect. Any decent parents would have known something was going on with their child .

She is a child, and should be charged as a child.

Quoting Yurvette [♥]:" When you were 14 could you make a choice like that? Especially if you had no support system? "

When I was 14 I would never ever kill a baby that just came out of me. She could have gone ANYWHERE. There are so many programs out there. It's called google. Alll 14 yr olds are fluent with computers.
Idc how smurffy her home life was. Go to a damn shelter. 8 months is a LONG ASS time to sit around thinking about what to do with the bbay growing inside you and yes I think any 14 yr old is mature enough to know that strangling their own child is wrong.