Month Old Baby put in Microwave

[Moros]

I've heard better news, than this that's for sure.

However I don't think you should kill the women just like that. If it was something mentally, then she needs help. And perhaps to be sterilised, be it temporary. By the way everybody could be pushed so far that they will think irrational and do irrational crazy action, murder being one of them. Yet I can't forget how much the child must have suffered.

[Lemur]

This just makes things worse, even if it can be classified in the "scientists discover that water is wet" branch of reasearch:

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Newborns probably able to feel pain: research

Many doctors refrain from giving newborns pain relief during surgical procedures in the belief that they do not feel pain, but new research shows this could be wrong, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said on Thursday.

"New measurement techniques show that even premature babies display all the signs of a conscious experience of pain," the research institute said in a statement, citing a doctoral thesis by Italian-Swedish researcher Marco Bartocci.

"For many years, doctors have assumed that foetuses, premature babies and fully developed newborn babies do not have the cerebral cortical functions required to feel pain," it said.

"Babies' reactions to potentially painful stimuli have been explained away as unconscious reflexes and so doctors have felt it justified to withhold painkillers during surgery and the like so as to avoid adverse reactions," the institute said.

But Bartocci's research shows that the brains of premature babies are far more developed than previously thought.

His studies "using infrared spectroscopy ... show that pain signals from a pin prick are processed in the cerebral cortex of premature babies in the same way as in adults."

This indicates that "all known pre-conditions for the conscience experience of pain are present, even though this still does not provide any conclusive evidence that they actually undergo a subjective painful experience."

The results of the study, which have been published in the scientific journal Pain, are expected to have "a major impact on pain-relief management for newborn babies as well as on approaches to child development in general," the institute said.

The public defence of the doctoral thesis will be held on Friday.

[Kagemusha]

I wont say anything else in to this then lock her up and throw away the key.

[Mithrandir]

Let's not use this thread to show our sadistical capabilities.

Innocence until proven guilty and all that.

Rip little baby.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

If you are against the death penalty why do you support capital punishment for this women?

I am against the death penalty in general. However, if it can be proven that this women did it, and she cannot be helped by therapy, then something must be done.

However, I admit I spoke in haste. Solitary confinement with constant therapy would probably be the better route to take. I should not have spoken as quickly as I did. I was sickened and angry, and should have rephrased part of my post.