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Newborn Baby Dumped In Trash DEAD; Colombian Street Justice in ACTION.

As I arrived in one of my favorite hillside barrios in Medellin, there were thousands of people out on the streets, something was definitely not good from the looks on peoples faces as they walked away from the scene. It was surreal....

My taxista did not want to drop me off, but I told him whatever happened has already happened. I jumped ou tof the taxi and made my way to my friends shop a few feet away from ground zero.

Turns out someone dumped a newborn baby into the trash, which was discovered after the bag was dumped into the garbage truck, beheading the newborn baby. It took them awhile before they were able to remove the deceased which they placed on the ground for further investigations.

Seems a young mother of 21 years of age did not want to care for the baby and decided the best thing to do was to stuff a piece of cloth in its mouth and dump it out with the trash.

Colombian street justice........

Next day, the young woman was assasinated in Itagui around noon time.

Day after, her sister who assisted with dumping the baby was caught coming down the hill and she recieved a serious beat down, lucky to be alive, she is now in the local jail cell being processed for murder.

NO ONE in the barrio is feeling sorry for the dead mother.

This is Colombian street justice at work..... wondering who calls the shot on something like this?

It´s a sad story... the locals go about their day as if nothing happened because the dead mother deserved it.

By Medellin Traveler on Aug 8, 2008, 23:35 in Friendly Talkzone.

Bill Turley (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 9, 2008, 06:25:

Here in the countryside, we had a delegation from the Para group cordova. They came for 2 reasons the first is that several farmers had "lost" cows and the 2nd was a situation that really was horrible. There was a successful tomato grower who had been sexually abusing a very immature step daughter who was about 11 or 12 (5th grade). By the time that the Paras left. there were no more cows getting "lost" and the tomato grower had abandoned his culitivo and left the area never to return. The litle girl moved to he grandmother's where she still lives 4 years later. This is effective street justice!

Mr. Bill Somondoco

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Medellin Traveler says on Aug 9, 2008, 06:38:

rocinante says, "People get cast out of barrios all the time."

That does seem to be the case when death is not warranted for whatever crimes or wrongs were commited.

The people in the barrios sometimes say of murdered victims in street justice, "they asked for it."

What´s interesting is how no one seems tramautized, including young children.

On one of my earlier trips up the hill alone, I was not sure were to turn, there were about five guys hanging out, saw I was lost, and pointed me into the right direction, knowing were I was going even though I¨ve never seen these guys before. Yesterday, this woman I was speaking with told me her son was interrogated a few weeks back as he walked up the hill to visit her. They did not know who he was, complete stranger in the barrio, he was escorted to his mother´s home, everything turned out okay.

There are eyes and ears in every barrio, including an unofficial "mayor" so to speak, who holds the meetings dealing with sensitive issues.

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Cerealkiller says on Aug 9, 2008, 06:54:

Sounds like paramilitary violence to me. I have heard about many cases like this one: a young woman hiding pregnancy for like ever, unable to get an abortion, scared shitless about the future goes on a does something stupid without thinking about the real meaning of throwing a living creature in a bin, literally. Abortion should be legal and accessible...its precisely that narrow minded catholic mentality what caused this tragedy.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives -John Stuart Mill

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Cerealkiller says on Aug 9, 2008, 07:24:

It doesn't have to be a costly procedure. When done correctly (legally) is safer and simpler than a birth, it can be induced through a pill or an ambulatory procedure that does not require heavy investment. Abortions are expensive in Colombia because they're illegal, not because they're complicated. Abortions in the UK, for instance, are cheaper than an ultrasound (if done privately).
If these girls were given the chance to go to a local clinic and get an abortion in a sterile environment nobody would have to worry about dying in the procedure, picking up baby bodies while collecting the trash, or being brutally murdered by some imbecile with a gun.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives -John Stuart Mill

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dwmte7 says on Aug 9, 2008, 07:38:

i'll tell you how abortion takes place....it's not expensive...my house maid, years ago used it.

there's a place downtown, a farmacia, where a women gets--as i remember--3 pills. she takes these, and her body goes into trauma and slughs off the fetus. cost? less than $10.00

patriarch

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Medellin Traveler says on Aug 9, 2008, 07:54:

dwmte7,

You are correct, there is a pill that women can take to abort the fetus. I know a Costa Rican girl who purchased the pill at the farmacia and it worked for her. It made her sick as a dog in the process, but no bebe.

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Cerealkiller says on Aug 9, 2008, 09:23:

These pills douglas and MT mentioned are not abortives, they're medications usually prescribed for other conditions which are grossly misused by poor women to interrupt pregnancies. Very often are this pills the cause of fatal hemorrhages, so its not safe and ultimately not cheap.
I don't believe whoever shot this young woman killed her rightfully. Doesn't matter if she planned on getting rid of the child from the get go. I am sure the heartless bastard who did that was not going to take care of the creature had she kept it, fed it, paid for school. If these people knew who did it, the should have reported her to the authorities. Whoever killed her deserves to be put in jail for 1st degree murder.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives -John Stuart Mill

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Sam Salmon says on Aug 9, 2008, 09:37:

"What´s interesting is how no one seems traumatized, including young children."
Not in any way true.
Those people in the barrio live a brutal existence-a life unimaginable to us on this board.

Sad to say that abandoned babies are still common everywhere even here in Canada-a young woman gave birth in a Wal Mart toilet in Prince Albert Saskatchewan a few years ago, last year someone abandoned a tiny child in a shopping mall stairway in Toronto-the list goes on and on.

' a la orden!'

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quantum says on Aug 9, 2008, 18:56:

It may appear brutal and inhumane to all of us but in light of how it was accepted in this barrio it is a statement as to how things work there and how justice is meted out. We need not agree with it any more than the stoning of an adulteras in a fundamentalist muslim country but it is their way. Kinda like in China where they dispense with all the small talk and haggling, and just shoot the culpable and send the bill for the bullet to the family. It just shows what a thin veneer of civilization we really have.

quantum

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goin_south says on Aug 9, 2008, 23:26:

Yep! that sounds jus about like the nature of things to go one in.............DETROIT

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Timba says on Aug 10, 2008, 07:57:

Those 3 pills....are they called "the morning after pills" ?

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dwmte7 says on Aug 10, 2008, 09:36:

not the ones my house gal used...this was near twenty years ago. just something some pharmacist down by the hueco sold her.

patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Aug 10, 2008, 09:37:

if you ask in a farmacia...i'm sure they'll have a clue as to what you want, and if they're not selling, they certainly kinow someone who does. colombians are good that way.

patriarch

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Medellin Traveler says on Aug 10, 2008, 09:39:

Cerealkiller says, "These pills douglas and MT mentioned are not abortives, they're medications usually prescribed for other conditions which are grossly misused by poor women to interrupt pregnancies. Very often are this pills the cause of fatal hemorrhages, so its not safe and ultimately not cheap."

You are correct.

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dwmte7 says on Aug 10, 2008, 10:01:

in defference to CK and you MT, all i know is what happened in my house. the girl took the pills at the recommendation of some family (?) member...she aborted or sloughed off the fetus. end of the story.

patriarch

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