2 % isn ' t much , especially added with if she called 911 we would have known BUT SHE DIDN ' T . INSTEAD she threw the baby in a plastic BAG and dumped it besides a dumpster . THEN only went to the doctors when SHE was hurting . My point is that it ' s unproven . If you want , you can criticize this woman within a potential version of reality , where her baby really was alive , and she knew it . But I ' m just telling you that in reality , we don ' t know , and we can never know . And a 1 in 50 chance is way too fucking high , man . That would mean that out of every 50 instances , either 1 guilty person goes free , or 1 innocent person is sentenced to 20 fucking years . And you ' re saying you want to take that risk ? And even if they baby was alive , she didn ' t know it . She didn ' t know she was killing a born babySorry , did you miss the class where they talked about ignorance of law doesn ' t excuse anyone ? Do they not teach that in school any more ? That ' s not ignorance of law . Ignorance of law is when you don ' t know the law . This is an instance of ignorance of reality I ' m saying there is the potential that if her baby was still alive , that she didn ' t fucking know it was still alive . She knew that letting it die was murder I ' m saying she didn ' t consider that a possibility . But no , I don ' t think they teach that in every high school . It probably depends on the school . And she 100 % knew she was harming the baby . She texted a friend stating just lost the baby , then put the baby in a plastic bagJust lost the baby sounds a lot like baby is dead . That sounds a lot more like proof that she believed the fetus was dead before she put it in a plastic bag . As for child neglect , I ' m just going to say that all this talk of murder clearly made me confused about this case . If she supposedly murdered a baby like everyone is saying , don ' t you think the law would be saying the same ? Instead , it was child neglect , charge sticking based only on a 150 fail rate , scientifically contested , controversial test . And then feticide , which apparently only stuck because the pills in question had been purchased online overseas . And by the way , all of this then put the baby in a plastic bag , instead of calling 911 , and then put in the bathroom trash not dumpster my bad . bathroom trash , and the trash can had an airline boarding pass with Patel ' s name . Then when decided finally to go to the hospital after she contacted her friends and parents , because she was in pain , she dropped the bag with the baby in it , into a dumpster . Is completely meaningless . I get that the image of this woman putting a potentially living fetus into a plastic bag and leaving it in a dumpster sounds immoral , disgusting , and a borderline act of the devil , but think about it objectively . You don ' t know the fetus was alive , and you don ' t know if she knew if it was . There is a 2 % chance that the fetus was dead long ago , which is honestly too high to say that you know it was still alive , more especially in a court of law , or a scientific setting .