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.
She was 26 when she was arrested. The article doesn’t say how old she was when she was recounting her work experiences to the journalist.
If she was 26 in 2018 then she is around 34 now. 34-16 =18 years to be a taxi driver. -2 years in prison She could have done 15 years if she had been a taxi driver from 17-now, but who hires 17 year olds as taxi drivers?
Bro have you ever traveled in America? Go to any airport in the country and you will see 15-20 local “taxi” services, a quarter of which run cash/venmo only.
What does this have to do with anything?
It means that she wasn’t lying and it’s plausible that she was driving a taxi before the age of 18.
Sure, you believe whatever you need to reinforce your preexisting beliefs.
I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to be aware of the pervasive anti-women culture here.
You couldn’t even express a single word of sympathy. Just nitpicking and casting her as untrustworthy.
Sorry I didnt see the rule where expressing sypmathy was required before pointing something out. Ill make sure to send thoughts and prayers first at all times in the future.
Wish you spent half this energy for the actual bad people in this story instead of trying to prove that the victim lied about her work history.
I spent 2 seconds pointing out bad reporting by cnn, im not trying to attack her. That detail adds nothing to the story but doubt, why include it?
Now I did waste more time trying to explaing gradeschool math to someone who is blindly defending someone they dont know from imagined attacks.
It was the only point in the entire story that you felt was worthy of discussion. Why is that?
As I said, that line stuck out to me as bad reporting because all it does is cast doubt and doesn’t help the story. You seem to have convinced yourself that I am the enemy and that I am calling her a liar, but that is not the case.
You missed the point of the article/story. You ignored this woman’s plight to nitpick about her employment years.
You derailed the conversation about women being charged for miscarriages to complain about a small error.
What world do you live in where every comment must express you point of view preemptively to not be considered an attack?
I’m allowed to be annoyed at a group of men who feel it’s more important to criticize a woman’s story than to feel sympathy or outrage about her mistreatment.