If I say the most magical day of a woman's life is the day she became a mother, most of you will agree. Being a mother is tough and it is a package of responsibilities and joys of motherhood. A woman does not necessarily have to give birth to a child to be a "mother". And then there are women who gave birth to children and let them rot to death.
Baby Sterling case is one of the most famous cases of parental negligence where the infant was found dead in a maggot infested swing. Baby Sterling Koehn is the baby of Cheyanne Harris and Zachary Koehn from Iowa, United States. On 30th August 2017 he was found rotting and bleeding from mouth in an apartment bedroom in Chickasaw County. The nurse who arrived at the scene once the father called 911 to report the babies death, has stated the father showed no emotion when he led her to the dark and hot bedroom where the baby was and when she moved the blanket gnats flew up. Baby's autopsy revealed that he died of malnutrition, dehydration and an E.coli infection causes by being left in a maggot infested nappy for 2 weeks. Hot room has attracted flies which had laid eggs that hatched into maggots while the baby was alive. Feces in the diaper ate through his skin allowing E.coli to enter his bloodstream and cause infections. The baby had a painful and a slow death over 2 weeks.
22 years old drug addicted mother and 29 years old father were charged with first degree murder and child endangerment causing death and given the lifetime imprisonment.
One of the most recent cases is the death of the Baby Willow from Brisbane, Australia. 4 years old baby girl Willow Dunn was discovered 2 days after her death on 23rd May 2020. Willows mother Naomi Dunn died while giving birth to her in November 2015 and her best friend Shannon White soon started dating the father, Mark Dunn and moved in. The parents allegedly left the girl in bed starving to death and there were sores on her hips down to the bone. When questioned Shannon had stated that Willow is not her responsibility. According to the news reports baby had been attacked by rats as she lay dead and Mark Dunn and Shannon White were charged with murder.
The thought of a baby slowly dying of starvation and rotting to death is horrible whether it is your child or not. And the occurrence of these gruesome incidents are much more common than we think. A simple Google search will give you hundreds of such incidents. So please if you can not raise kids and give them the proper love and care they deserve do not make kids or give them to someone who will love and cherish them as their own.
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