The mother was in shock that day in May 2018 as several law enforcement officers, some in tactical gear, stood outside the rural Winnemucca home to serve a search warrant.
“I had a miscarriage, OK? A miscarriage. Why are you guys here over a f**king miscarriage?” Rousseau responded to the deputy.
The single mother, who was already struggling to afford care for her two young boys, was dealing with complicated feelings of ambivalence and guilt about her unplanned pregnancy and stillbirth, her attorney said. Rousseau told the deputies she had been taking large quantities of cinnamon and lifting heavy things while pregnant “to have a miscarriage.”
Deputies walked to a cross that was painted red with Abel’s name written in black on a green plot behind the house, according to the police body camera footage and a police report. They dug up the remains and carried them to a law enforcement vehicle, the report said.
Two days later, Rousseau was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter before she was convicted in Nevada, where abortion is legal, under what legal experts say is a vague and broadly written statute that makes it a crime for any woman to take drugs with the intent to terminate a pregnancy. She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.
I don’t see how I misread the article. I believe the article is unclear and the bit about the taxi job is open to interpretation. I did not jump to conclusions about the interviewee’s work history. I stated how I interpreted what the article says about her work history. The article may or may not accurately reflect reality and may or may not accurately reflect the interviewee’s telling of her work history.
I never said you weren’t allowed to feel a certain way. I stated what you did and how that affected the thread’s trajectory. Do you think I said you weren’t allowed to feel a certain way? I don’t get why you’re bringing it up.
And pardon me for assuming that the stance of most of the people who responded to this post was the obvious stance.
Clarification: are you more upset because you think I’m a man? I have been on the internet since the 90s and, as we all know {joke} there were no girls on the internet in the 90s.
I read that section of the article and wasn’t confused about her general retelling of her work history and favorite jobs. The idea that only people above 18 work is preposterous. Especially when the article detailed that she was already a skilled laborer by the age of 14.
No, I was simply stating how I felt about it because I think it’s a damn shame that the real story here got obfuscated by a hyper focus on a small detail.
Apologies on the assumption, Lemmy is so overwhelmingly male and misogynistic that it’s easy to miss the rare woman here.
Fair.
I was really only confused about the “Her favorite job was working as a taxi driver for 15 years.” Everything else made sense, that just felt like a bad phrasing on the reporter’s part. Other jobs, I was replacing shingles on my family’s buildings at 15, folding boxes under the table for a local bakery before then.
No hard feelings? TBH, I should have disengaged sooner because I felt myself going down the “maybe if I overexplain my stance they’ll agree with me and everyone’ll be happy” rabbit hole, when I should have figured out that we were talking past each other. Like, it felt so… yeah, no, the events in the article are messed up. Clearly if I feel that so strongly everyone else can read my mind and knows that without me saying anything [spoiler alert: people can’t read my mind]. Then I fixated on the detail of the date and you maybe thought that was all anyone in the thread was taking away from the article, which didn’t help anything.
No hard feelings. Thank you for taking the time to see where I am coming from.