La. woman charged with stabbing her newborn to death
No bond set for dead baby’s mother:
20-year-old Ashley Johnson of Monroe, Louisiana was charged in the death of her newborn. Johnson claims that she didn’t realize that she was pregnant when she gave birth. Again, how can you not know this? Police say she stabbed the newborn and fractured its skull shortly after giving birth to the baby.
Johnson claims that she tried cutting the umbilical cord with scissors after the birth and may have cut the baby’s shoulder except that doctors say the newborn had several deep lacerations to the right side of the neck and shoulder. Also that doesn’t explain the fractured skull however.
An autopsy performed on the newborn showed that the baby had a severed carotid artery and multiple skull fractures.
I wonder what the real reason was that she killed the baby. I would lay odds is that it was something as selfish as not being able to party anymore if she had a kid. Well there ain’t gonna be any partying for her anymore.
Whatever the reason with safe haven laws and abortions, as distasteful as I find them, there is no reason for what she allegedly did to this child.
Thanks to Lori for the tip.
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April 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Bloody hell…where do these freaks come from? Is there some kind of freak factory somewhere in the woods where they are manufactured & then set loose on the world?
I am the first to admit that I can be a very heartless & cruel person when it comes to people like this but can you blame me? I would like to see her killed in a public execution…like the ones back in medieval times…”Off with her head” kind of thing!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Maybe she figured she’d save money on an abortion. It a mindset. What people don’t catch me doing didn’t happen. This crime should carry a life senctence. Instead, most of them get off on probation. Heinous! The most innocent should be afforded the most protection, and to take their lives, the most serious offense. !!!!!!!
Offing her head would be good, too.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Well, speaking from family experience, I have a young sister who’s a meth addict…and she didn’t know she was giving birth until she felt the crowning or head coming out. >.>
She’s a real piece of work. <.<
April 20th, 2009 at 3:08 am
yeah it really does happen that people don’t know they’re pregnant.
happens to really really fat people – small pregnancy, huge stomach to start with, too blubbery to notice an alien in their stomach.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Brent…I have heard about people not knowing they were pregnant until they were in labour too..
Eccentric_Lady..you poor thing…I have a brother who is an addict…he isn’t picky about drugs though…basically whatever he can get his hands on he will take…we are trying to convince him to have a vasectomy…he doesn’t have any kids yet but that is a good thing!
Lisa…I agree totally…some people (I use the term loosely) really don’t deserve to live.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:39 am
I found only one 20 year old Ashley Johnson from Monroe, on Myspace. her last log in was Wednesday (the day of the birth/murder) and there’s a comment from a guy on March 16 that says: “Well since you ain’t pregnat, Imma need that money I gave you for diapers a stroller and baby cloths back!!!”
It’s extemely likely that it’s the same person, and–she knew! We’ll know for sure if her friends start posting “Free Ashley!!11″ on her comments.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Yep, Lori, it sounds like she knew. I hope the prosecutors get hold of that before someone manages to erase it from her MySpace. It could be damning evidence in court. I wonder if the person who wrote it was the father…..
April 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
This crime is much more horrific than baby dumping. The mother had to repeatedly stab a newborn. She also had to smash it’s head with something or against something to create the skull fractures. She deserves life in prison. Someone would have loved to adopt that baby. And, they would have provided a wonderful home. I have no sympathy for the birth mother.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:50 am
“Golly, what’s this? A baby! Fancy that — didn’t even know I was preggers! What to do, what to do. Aha! Stab it to death! Hmmm — that’s not working as I’d hoped. Smash the little buggers head in! Finally. Finally IT stopped crying. Now I can go about my life.”
I’m sure some will come out and defend her — poor misguided souls that they are. She had enough wits about her to lie to get herself out of trouble for the heinous web she wove to get herself out trouble for spreading her legs. I disagree when people say, “Having a baby at your age will ruin your life!” Instead, I say, “Having a baby at your age will ruin THE BABIE’S LIFE!” The focus is in the wrong place.
God Help us all…
April 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Quote: “Having a baby at your age will ruin THE BABIE’S LIFE!”
Not necessarily, LIsa. I had my first at 19, and she is almost 20 now, and I managed to raise her without once slitting her throat OR bashing her head in.
And this little twit here didn’t ruin her baby’s life….she ended it.
But I understand what you’re trying to say, anyway. Some people just don’t need to be parents – ever!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Angel, you have done amazing things with your life and your family considering the abuse you survived — it goes without saying that you are not included in my “ruin baby” statement. And although 19 is a bit older and more mature (usually) than a lot of teen mothers, I know it is still a challenge, and I wish your example were the rule and not the exception to how teen mothers behave. I think we can all agree that there are good teen mothers out there — there are just way too many that are not ready to be a proper parent.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Agreed, LIsa. The twit in this story, however, was 20. Not even a teen anymore. I wonder what excuse she is gonna try and use for her behavior. I hope she spends the rest of her life – or at the very least, the rest of her childbearing years – in prison.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Can I just say, as a fat woman who’s been pregnant thrice now, being really “blubbery” (as Brent so delicately put it) does NOT prevent you from knowing you’re pregnant. It only makes it easier to HIDE it from other people who don’t see you as an actual human being who MIGHT actually have sex and have a baby.
You can be fat, get pregnant, miss your period, feel the baby move, get morning sickness, exhaustion, round ligament pain and all the lovely joys of pregnancy that thin women experience too.
People who say they didn’t know they were pregnant are lying. Unless it’s a very young teen who’s never even had her first period (and YES, you can actually get pregnant the very first time you ovulate) any woman with an IQ above 50 would KNOW she’s pregnant.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Lisa, there are plenty of young moms who would never hurt their children. It’s harder on them than it would be later, but I know plenty of girls that had kids at 20 or younger who are good moms. It’s just that the good ones don’t get press coverage.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
This POS stabbed her own newborn & beat his or her head in? Why? What leads a “person” to become so morally bankrupt as to allow them to act that way? What’s missing from her mind or heart or soul? Was she raised by serial killers, drug users, or a normal mom like me? Animals do not treat their offspring this way. The natural instinct for any mother–human or animal–is to protect our young. My children are adopted. Biologically speaking, I should have no “mothering” instincts. Biologically, I am not a mother. I have a mother’s heart & mind & soul. While I may not have had the best upbringing, I did figure out it’s wrong to hurt those smaller & weaker than ourselves.
So what’s wrong with this POS maternal DNA doner? We can see she’s broken & this kind of broke can’t be fixed. Off with her head, yeah buddy. But first, I want to know why. Does she even know?
I learned many years ago that my “why” questions will never be answered. Now I don’t normally care. I want to see the abusers/murderers punished. Sometimes “why” floats through my mind & I can’t help but wonder.
Why?
vg
April 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
How horrid.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I didn’t know I was pregnant until about 5 months along. I had a regular period (which isn’t normal but can happen). I thought I had some horrible case of food poisoning, but I could feel something was amiss here. However, I had a friend of mine hide her pregnancy from her family until she delivered right on the beach. he knew ofcourse but she went full term and swear to god didn’t show at all. No one even noticed she was pregnant until she went into labor.
I can’t believe that some one could do this. And abortions are free too. If you get your local insurance coverage (which if you can’t afford an abortion in the first place you sure are covered) and it will cover the procedure. Not only that, but safe haven laws? hello! Adoption? There are so many things to do other than kill a baby. People still do it though, no idea why!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:50 am
The most disgusting thing about this to me, is that as Trench Reynolds said, it was probably a case of the birth organism not being able to party anymore.
WHY does no one consider adoption anymore? There are literally TENS OF THOUSANDS of parents out there that want babies.
The ONLY reason for an abortion beyond medical reasons is to save yourself some embarrassment. It’s not the 50’s anymore – have the damn baby, give it up for adoption.
I’m so sick of reading about babies being killed. I don’t understand how it’s even possible.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:53 am
…there’s also the small matter of women choosing what does and does not happen to their bodies…
… but an abortion in the 10th month?? That’s a pretty late abortion…
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 am
Sometimes I feel like people should have a late term abortion…but when the “baby” is 25 years old I guess it really is too late!!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 am
Quote from brent:
“…there’s also the small matter of women choosing what does and does not happen to their bodies…”
I’m not trying to start anything here, but abortion should not be used as a primary form of birth control. That’s what we have the pill, the patch, and myriad other devices for. There is also the option of having yourself sterilized. I realize that there are certain circumstances in which the pregnancy would be a danger to the mother’s life, or in cases of rape or incest, where the pregnancy would be emotionally traumatic for the woman. However, killing infants in the womb should be a last resort. And women who don’t want babies should either abstain from sex, or use one of the proven forms of birth control. That is another way they could “choose what does and does not happen to their bodies.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 am
Of course it’s a last resort.
…but that’s kind of the point.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
I helped finance an abortion. Let me tell you it was the worst feeling in the world.. After it was done no one said a word on the way home. The child wasn’t even mine! It’s a long story. This story makes me sick. Poor kid had no chance..
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
All I can say is that this girl can’t be human. Or maybe she is human but raised by wolves. I can’t put myself in her shoes, I just can’t understand how you can’t feel one ounce of love, even a pinch toward a living little baby that you gave birth to. But then to kill it in such a horrific manner? She should never get out of jail, she’s not fit for society.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Angel, if only more women felt like you then the world would be a better place. Sadly I don’t think this behavior will ever stop.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Sad, Sad another baby who the subhuman mom decided the was too much of a burden. …
April 24th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I’m wondering if she actually had it while still on the toilet. If it hit it’s head on the interior of the toilet…?
Nah… stabbing it on top of everything? Nevermind. Definitely intentional.
Anyway, bumping it’s head on the bottom of the toilet when being born could only account for maybe one bump on the poor baby’s skull.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I think that people are being too harsh…i completely understand she did a horrible thing…but she obviously needs help…and yes an innocent child was brutally murdered in the process…but going as far as to say “she was raised by wolves”…i mean come on grow up and come together to get her help and make sure it never happens again
May 4th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@A.Gaines:
The only help she needs IMHO, is a couple ounces of lead at high velocity, to the cerebral cortex. She KILLED A BABY! The only way to make sure it never happens again (with her, anyway) would be A) sterilization, B) LWOP, or C) death. She gave that baby a death sentence, and I say if it was good enough for her baby, then it should be good enough for her. She’s a selfish bitch who took the life of an innocent baby. What makes you even think that someone who is that depraved can BE rehabilitated? I don’t.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
…yeah one of the things that helps me feel empathy for other human beings is when they avoid doing things that vicious animals do.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
clearly she was sad about the pregnancy. she was depressed. Anyone ever consider post partom. it happens immediatly!
August 5th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hi, Angela! I haven’t seen you for a while. Where have you been?
I understand PPD. I had it after the births of five of mine. I never stabbed one, or smashed it’s head in. As far as I’m concerned, that is NOT a valid defense. Ever.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
…I had to stab my baby your Honor… I was feeling sad.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
LOL, Brent. Is that why you bashed it’s head, too?
August 6th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I bashed its head in because it looked at me funny – and in my hood you can’t survive if you don’t take action when someone looks at you funny.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:36 am
Taja, me guess is the same sort of person that lies about being abused would do this sort of thing. Let’s face it. There are some fucked up people in the world. WAKE UP CALL!!
January 15th, 2010 at 2:59 am
I’m doing internet research for a book I’m writing and stumbled on this appaling story. How absolutely horrible-that poor little baby! Put the baby up for adoption, take to a safe haven, anything. She didn’t have to kill the innocent child!!! I want this woman(and I say that in the loosest sense of the word)to get the death penalty. She deseves it thouggh I’m sure she’ll pull an insanity defense.