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This isn't a new occurence.


Another infant has been left at a hospital by a new mother who just couldn't cope with the enormity of it all.

What drove this girl to abandon her child (assuming it was hers) I can't know but it must have been a terribly hard decision.
However, the fact that she left the child at a hospital, beyond any doubt a location where the infant would be taken care off with all science's benefits shows she didn't actually just ABANDON the baby per se. More, left it with someone who could look after the child better than she.

Enter the 'Daily Rag', aka, the Daily Telegraph, Australia's premier tabloid, with a headline so saturated in nauseating sanctimony it sent me straight for the bucket.

"How could you do this?" or something similar, it screamed. I didn't read the report, even in the name of research - the headline was enough for me, but I can just imagine how it went. Shame, shame, shame etc!

Well, I'll tell you something, if this public shame tips the already mentally anguished young girl over the edge, it's all on you, David Pemberthy, as editor of this toilet paper!
But ironically, nothwithstanding the outrageous, self serving santimony, this paper, and all papers who indulge in the same insidious practice, is guilty of much more malignant a sin. That being - the motivation for this offensive headline is financial; the desire to sell more papers - to increase bottom line - to make SOME fat cat (and shareholders), money.

N.B, The PM came out and defended the rag, remarking, it was just business and that "if you were to ask people on the street, they would say the same thing". That would be all fine and dandy if not for the fact I happen to know the man on the street, as he puts it, is a moron whose led around by the nose. So that doesn't hold much water, frankly.

Further evidence confirming my decision to desist buying that rag!