Last week, a janitor working at a high school in south
Houston found the body of a dead recently-born baby while cleaning the women’s
restroom. The janitor eventually called the police and now the medical examiner
has ordered an autopsy on the baby’s body to determine if the infant was alive
at the time of birth.
School officials used surveillance video to determine the identity
of the mother and have confirmed she attends the high school in question. The
student is under the age of 16, the legal age to consent to sexual relations in
Texas, meaning she is a victim of statutory rape. Reportedly, neither she nor
her parents knew she was pregnant at the time she gave birth.
In fact, the mother of the student says the baby’s father is
a 23-year-old man the student was seeing against her wishes and the student
eventually left home for a period of time before returning.
“The mother said they filed a police report, but nothing
came of it. We checked with Houston police and they said it is an open sexual
assault investigation,” one report indicates.
Here’s more:
“Our primary concern after the discovery was to determine if
we had a student in need of medical care,” Renea Ivy, associate superintendent
of Pasadena Independent School District, said in a statement.
Ivy told TheBlaze that her heart broke for the juvenile
mother, who delivered the child alone. She has since encouraged parents to use
the tragedy to “talk to their children and remind them that they are not
alone.”
“When students have concerns, whether medical, social or
academic, they should talk to an adult,” she said. “Students can always talk to
a teacher, counselor, principal or assistant principal who will guide them to
the help they need.”
A similar incident happened at a Dallas high school a couple
years ago. Then, a high school student reportedly gave birth in a Dallas high
school bathroom and the dead baby was found when students alerted a janitor.
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