Our thanks to Jeff for this. A headline you’ll never see:

“Father who killed baby in (year) gets suspended sentence.”

Nigel’s comments:

“She concealed her pregnancy from her husband by wearing baggy clothes and had an easy birth after which she killed the baby and kept the secret till her crime came to light due to another family member’s DNA in a completely unrelated investigation decades later. None of which sounds like this was anything other than a calculated act. So her then husband has been unaware he had another son who was murdered.

But of course the woman is excused because she was “mad” not “bad” and the death is a “tragedy”. The logic being that she must have been mentally ill because what mother could be so evil to have planned it? Yet plan it she did, and would have taken the secret to her grave. “Two-tier justice” right on display.”

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