Mother should be locked up forever

Regarding the Friday article, “Charges reduced for girl”:

The Snohomish County Prosecutor’s office once again has proven they are a complete failure at being tough on crime. The girl who placed her child in a plastic bag and abandoned it in Marysville deserves a life in jail at a minimum. For a deputy prosecutor to make an excuse like he did recently on the radio that the girl didn’t know what to do with the child is stunning. She doesn’t speak English … so what? Is that a proper excuse to abandon and attempt to leave your child to die in the cold in a bag? The deputy prosecutor also claimed that there was no evidence she was attempting to kill the child. Is this guy serious? Apparently ignorance of the law is a defense if you are a Mexican citizen. This woman placed a newborn in a bag and left it near a retaining pond. There is no way that the girl could have thought that the child would survive and any court of law in the county would have convicted her of attempted murder. Any person responsible for this kind of garbage should be locked up forever. The prosecutor’s office is directly contributing to the lack of care for human life that many of today’s young people display.

The deputy prosecutor who made this decision should be terminated and run out of town.

Dean Henry

Marysville