Should She get another Chance?

Baby Nearly Starves After Being
Left Alone 3 Weeks
20-Year-Old Mother Is Behind Bars
UPDATED: 12:01 pm
EDT October 24, 2005

COVINGTON, Ohio -- Police said a 7-month-old
baby was nearly starved to death by his own
mother, WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported.
The mother, 20-year-old Ashley Traylor, left
the boy alone for up to three weeks without food,
police said.
She is in jail, charged with criminal abuse, and
the baby is at Children's Hospital in fair condition.
A suspicious neighbor saved the boy by entering
Traylor's apartment when she was gone,
the station reported.
"His face was all sunk in like he'd been starving
in there," said Antonio Farmer, who discovered the
baby.
The baby was barely conscious, wearing a filthy
diaper, police said.
"He couldn't have weighed more than 5 or 10 pounds.
He didn't have enough energy to cry," Farmer said.
Another neighbor said Traylor once told her "she
didn't want the baby, she was going to throw him
in the river."
Other residents in Traylor's apartment building
said she tried to cover up the abuse by lying to
them.
They said they saw Traylor with her 3-year-old girl,
but the baby was nowhere in sight.
"I asked her several times where the baby was
and she kept saying, 'with a baby-sitter,'"
a neighbor said. "It kind of makes me mad at
myself because I always had a small suspicion
and I never acted on it."
But Farmer acted on his before it was too late.
"She was basically taking his chance of life from
him. I don't think they should let her out,"
Farmer said.
Traylor's little girl is with a foster family,
a neighbor said. The baby will likely end up in
a foster home, too.
Traylor is set to become a mother again.
She is four months pregnant, neighbors said.
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ANOTHER ABUSE STORY
It scares me that women like this exists.
Where is that unconditional mother's love
we are suppose to have!