The Sinister & Chilling Case of Mary Prout

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[@civillady13]

I am always amazed at the complete dissonance towards illegitimate children back then. The mother and child were shunned and shamed yet when a child was killed the community responded with outrage. They only seemed to care after death. Easier to care after death.

[@ashleymorgan-kp7um]

The mother and father should have been shamed equally

[@lisasantilli9495]

Yes, but 120 years is the most you get then it's adios amigo.

[@ClarTV]

I agree. I am blessed that when my ancestor got pregnant out of wedlock her parents left everything and relocated to South Africa. It was there she met her husband who adopted her daughter and gave her a good life. Sadly not everyone is that lucky 😢

[@VanessaKittredge]

I am illegitimate, born in 1968. I went to catholic school in late 70s early 80s and may as well have had a scarlet letter on my chest. They may not have known I was an illegitimate child. But they knew my mom was a divorcee .. why are human beings so cruel. In the days of this story, a woman was powerless. A man could do as he pleased. A woman couldn’t own a house or have her own bank account. And she and her innocent infant were punished. Sickening that so many women were forced to live in shame or abandon their babies or worse. I have three kids now. One, an adopted son. He was illegitimate. Not anymore. He’s mine and I’m so proud of him.

[@civillady13]

@@VanessaKittredge I’m sorry you went thru that. My oldest brother was illegitimate and wanted to go to the seminary when he was 17 (born 1944). The priests wouldn’t allow this until he was told (he only knew our dad as his dad). He didn’t go to seminary and it messed with his head and emotions for years.

[@annemariedevonald1616]

I can't believe you have covered this case. I am actually related to Mary Prout. My grandmother was Lillian Prout and she was born in Narbeth. My uncle did a long family tree and found out that Mary Prout was related to us. So interesting to see this covered here.

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

That is so interesting, Its always good to hear from people related to the subjects in the video or who live in the area, I have always found Marys case quite facsinating as having a sentence commuted was not so common in the 1860s

[@luciebrisson5881]

I'm always of two minds with cases like this one. I feel a deep sadness for the innocent and helpless baby. And I feel a great sadness for the mother who, at that time, maybe could only imagine a life of being put out, put down, turned away, endlessly shamed for the unimaginable gall of giving birth out of wedlock. Very sad. Thank you Brief Case.

[@lisasantilli9495]

I'm sure it wasn't the mother that imagined herself being "put down, put out, turned away". It was someone else imagining that, because no one imagines the worst for themselves. It's hard for everybody to accept ill bad news & a devastating fate for themselves. 😢

[@koolkitty2768]

So sad Mary felt she had no other option but to do what she did! Mother and baby were both victims of a cruel and harsh society...May they be blessed with everlasting peace!

[@helenaolsson7990]

She did have an option! She should have brought the baby with her to her granny. Instead she killed her baby.

[@muchtested]

It did seem the grandmother was willing to help her, even if she felt it better for Mary that Rhoda died, in spite of the prevailing morals of the day.

[@TimJameson-jg8sl]

Or she was immoral & promiscuous. I know women hate to take responsibility for their actions.But she opened her legs to a guy who wanted nothing to do with her.That is squarely her responsibility she knew what would happen

[@CobiewithaK]

​@@TimJameson-jg8slUnnecessarily harshly put.

[@muchtested]

@@TimJameson-jg8sl It is thought the married man who dallied with her, married her when he became a widower. Perhaps, he could have taken care of his part of that sin before its death.

[@orientalrose4388]

What a story! The resilence of Mary Prout despite the odds and her life post prison sentence is remarkable. She did feel remorse and she was rehabilitated, which to me proves this can work. What I don’t understand is, her stopping outside the house of a relative, who took babies into her home to care for them. Next thing we know is, Mary’s baby was gone. I just wonder if that was a detail and a gap in the story that anyone else noticed? Mary might have knocked on their door and asked if they would take her baby in as well. because of the social stigma of living in her grandmother’s house as a single mother. But this relative might have refused to take the baby, or done something else. What really happened in those few hours, that could possibly have been too much for Mary? Thanks again for a very interesting episode! 🦋

[@LifeisANovel]

Society made it so hard for women. Putting a lot in tough positions. Pretty sad

[@kimsherlock8969]

@@orientalrose4388 yes good insight

[@lemarch57]

@@LifeisANovel Agreed. There was no information about a young man being interested in her, so it is likely she was raped, possibly by a male member of the family she was serving. That would explain her reluctance to tell who the father was.

[@jenjaffray5850]

I definitely noticed that! And was very much hoping they would not find the baby's body, and that instead she'd left poor Roda with her relative who cares for babies. So sad.

[@rneustel388]

Yes, I wondered that that wasn’t mentioned again.

[@TheCrazyDumbsaint]

This poor woman had no education, no money, and no family. She was forced to have her baby in a workhouse, which was hardly the bed of roses described. She had NO options, because she wasn't important enough. She didn't even know if her grandmother would welcome her or shame her like most people. I can easily see her cracking and perhaps thinking it was kinder for her child to die. What sort of future do you think Mary saw for her daughter? Mary was very young and obviously under tremendous physical and mental strain. They are both victims, in my opinion.

[@hollieanderson-rambo17]

Agreed and absolutely no mention of the father who was never expected to to have to be in such a position. 😢

[@nonayobiznez5311]

She could have tried. Not everyone hates unwed mothers and their babies.

[@barbarajolley6578]

Thank you, BC, for another interesting story. What bothers me in cases like this is that "harsh morality" of the Victorian society was mainly harsh on women. There is no sign of the baby's father in most of these cases. May Mary and her little Daughter Rest in Peace.

[@ritawing1064]

If you look back through the comments you'll find one which shows this harshness is still alive amongst us 😢

[@lisasantilli9495]

Well when it's one's time to die then yes, RIP is the way to go. At least for me it is. 😅

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There is no better way to start out a Monday. Brief Case! 🥰

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Thanks Rebecca

[@serenitynow288]

Poor Mary, a victim of postpartum depression I believe. What a sad story. Thanks Mr. Brief Case for telling it so well. ❤

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Thankyou :)

[@julierobinson3633]

Personally I don't think it was post partum depression, there would surely have been signs of that developing while she was in the workhouse. I think it was possibly more a case of a desperate young girl schooled by the attitudes of the time to see her baby as a problem. Look at her grandmother's reaction to hearing about her great grandchild's death - telling the young mother to "get down on her knees and thank God for taking the baby". And it was a time of very high infant mortality - especially of babies born poor, and it does not come much worse than being born in a workhouse. Mary may have felt that her child might die anyway, why let it ruin her whole life for now. And although BriefCase describes the mother and daughter she met on the way 'admiring' her baby, I suspect what Mary may well have seen in their eyes was their contempt for her, at best a foolish girl who'd 'got herself in trouble' and at worst a fallen woman, a sinner. And the baby she held in her arms would always be the badge of that. It seems significant that it was just after she met them that she literally threw away the baby.

[@ashleymorgan-kp7um]

Dont need that to not want a baby

[@seandelap8587]

Kids are precious and its always tragic to hear about these sort of cases

[@phineas117]

hypocrites. on one hand, they wouldn't help the girl and her baby, and spread gossip. but when she was up against it, they condemn her for murder. beings the girl wouldn't say who the father was, and the fact she was in domestic service....I'd look at the male members of the household. Rest in Peace Mary . please pat briefcat for me.

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[@amandapittar9398]

It says a whole lot that Mary settled in to the workhouse easily and was a model inmate. The workhouse was not a great change from her life outside. The poor young woman, pregnant, rejected, destitute, rejected several times by everyone. Even the workhouse rejected her. She probably thought her wee baby was better off without her. Can you imagine what she went through? It’s unimaginable. My heart aches for her, alone and desperate. Poor poor Mary. Today she would get help, not condemnation.

[@EmmaPeacock-cc9fl]

What a sad tale. Beautifully told as always. I always wonder if these people have descendants alive today and where they are. ❤

[@lilliankeane5731]

Awww, so sad. Little baby didn’t get a chance to grow up, her last moments of confusion and terror , is no way to leave this earth especially one so young.. 😞

[@brendaholliday6866]

This was a "heartbreaking," case of a young unmarried woman who didn't have any help who out of desperation murdered her infant daughter. Its so sad that high society puts a burden on someone who makes a mistake as though they're perfect and none of us are perfect people, period! Great investigating and presenting, as usual. Take care 🦋

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We certainly do!

[@WonderWhatHappened]

I just wrap my head around someone killing their baby. It seemed as though her grandmother would've accepted her with baby with open arms. I think her sentence of 20 years is about right (assuming she had mental issues) knowing she had to live with herself knowing what she did. I hope Mary's father felt some guilt for turning away his child as he did.

[@orchidrose1410]

I don’t always trust police records of this time period, I don’t believe she killed her baby. Sounds like the people punished her for having a child then punished her again because they couldn’t ridicule her for it. It’s really infuriating that they gave women no option at the time and how men could run around destroying women left and right with no repercussions, all blame and responsibility being placed in the woman or young girl, regardless of age. And then when cases like this came about, society was shocked that “otherwise decent women” would behave in such a manner. And furthermore severe punishment and condemnation would be hurled upon the woman solely for premarital sex and pregnancy, as if it “doesn’t take two to tango”.

[@HappyChickPea]

Heartbreaking story of Mary and her poor daughter who never was able to live a full life. I wonder if Mary’s secrecy about the father was a result of family abuse or that of her employer. I’m glad she had a chance to live a better life as it seems she had good intentions. I look forward to Monday thanks to BriefCase! Thank you for your stories!

[@lisasantilli9495]

3 for now. 😮

[@mausercawley]

Happy Monday BC, good to see you. Happy Monday everyone

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Happy monday!!

[@EarthAngelPreparedness]

Happy Monday!! 😊

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Thankyou :)

[@nneichan9353]

the horrible societal pressures and resultant stress did not help unwed mothers.

[@jimmyavpi]

No-one forced her to murder her daughter. That was purely her choice. Evil woman..

[@TheCrazyDumbsaint]

Yes, I really think she was being punished for society's failings.

[@chriseggleston7573]

And no accountability for the philander father

[@ashleymorgan-kp7um]

Society was better off when it shamed unwed mothers who had offspring they could not support.

[@nneichan9353]

@@ashleymorgan-kp7um I'm sorry, but condemning a child because of a parent's actions is wrong. each person will eventually be held to account for what They did.

[@quickchris10]

So sad for that sweet wee one. I feel so sorry for Mary, too, even as I think, ``how could she.'' I mean, she was forced to leave workhouse, they said, ``look, you have somewhere you can go,'' but she probably knew her grandmother was gonna be judgy and fierce with her, as old ladies all used to be. Standing over Mary while she scrubbed the floors, saying, ``you made your mistake and now you must pay the piper,'' it was going to be insufferable.

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Thanks Sarah :)

[@susanbryson753]

Thank you for sharing the details of this tragic tale!!!! I am so glad that poor Mary Prout finally experienced some normalcy!!! Mondays are always marvellous due to your incredible research and narrations, Emperor of Exquisiteness!!!

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[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Thanks for finding these, largely unknown and forgotten cases.

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Thanks for watching

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

And I've also discovered when infanticide became a separate offence, 1922 if anyone's interested.

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Wow so many days, so I do not know who Jar-Jar Binks is, I do very much like Potato Day, but homeless animals day seems a good cause

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International homeless animals day was August 17th this year of 2024.

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That’s a lot for one day 😊 best of luck

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[@littlereddstar5264]

My 🐈 fur baby crossed the 🌈 bridge yesterday afternoon 😭. Today’s video sad as it is, is a welcome distraction.

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Sorry to hear that, It is always very sad to lose a beloved pet

[@alyssstout8112]

I’m so sorry for the loss of your precious baby….💔💔💔

[@bettyfeliciano7322]

Oh my goodness! What a tragic story. I believe that Mary was so downhearted about her child, and the fact that she had no way to keep her baby at grandmothers that she panicked and threw her in and ran away.

[@jimmyavpi]

No matter which way you look at it, she murdered her child.

[@bettyfeliciano7322]

@@jimmyavpi This is true.

[@londonsage8696]

Good morning Well, you know how I feel when it comes to children. Also as well as mental ill cases because that’s the field that I work in. It does sound like there was some mental illness in her family just from what you described and it sounds like Mary was a very good mother and we will never know what happened as she was walking toward her grandmother’s house. It’s funny how single mothers were treated back then because it still happens today. Some women are look down upon because they don’t have a father in the home and I think that’s pretty sad to be judged like that I’m glad she was given a second chance because we don’t know what really happened so I cannot judge her. I don’t agree with her throwing her child in a pit, but she did take care of her child and when she passed away, I’m glad that her sons had taken her back to her hometown and laid her to rest next to her daughter. Thank you for another intriguing story and I hope you have a wonderful week.

[@debanam]

Good morning BC As what usually happens the father is no where to be found.

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Thankyou so much Ashley :)

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I love how these stories are so well composed and the outcome is disclosed. Great style of presentations too! Love it!

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[@foxesofautumn]

The double standard was harsh. “You’d better not have a baby!” But, also, “You better have that baby!” Had she not been rejected from safe situations she wouldn’t have done anything to that child. Her society made her desperate and then almost hanged her for the outcome of that judgement.

[@Ferret8185]

All these poor women that get pregnant and have to take all the consequences on there own.

[@jimmyavpi]

Maybe they should keep their knickers on then..

[@thelurelady]

And to think there was a high likelihood these poor women were in a situation where rape might have happened.

[@Ferret8185]

@@thelurelady which happened often, because you were lucky to get the job.

[@tash4270]

Evening folks! From New South Wales, Australia 😊 I have a cold, kids are finally asleep, time to curl up in bed and settle in for story time

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Good evening from Mackay Queensland. I’m on my back deck on a beautiful night watching. Enjoy.

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Hi Tash :)

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Gday from the Eyre Peninsula South Aus.

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North East Victoria here. Have a lovely evening. Settled in with some knitting in front of the heater.

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Good morning briefcase and all wonderful fans.I am so happy when Monday's arrive so that i can get to enjoy another intriguing piece of history ❤

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Good morning!

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Been waiting for an opportunity to watch this since the notification first popped up, and it's finally Brief Case time! I say that like it's been days and not less than 2 hours ago, lol.

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Thanks Holly :)

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[@EarthAngelPreparedness]

Happy Monday Briefy!! Just getting into watching this case. Thank you for making my Monday more exciting. Always look forward to a new BC video!! 🔎💼🔍📓☕

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Thanks :)

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[@deniseconsultant1538]

Thanks BC. Here I am watching the newest video instead of proceeding with my day😜. So now this is my day, thus far! Perhaps 2 pm is a good time to make other types of progress

[@marleennijland4244]

Never forget that in those days many domestic servants were impregnated by their employers or the son of their employer.

[@lisasantilli9495]

Or a rocknroll star😊! Maybe weird Al Yankovich??? 😽

[@toscadonna]

Exactly. She was pretty, and you can bet it was her employer or one of his sons that knocked her up, and then they threw her out to starve in shame with the baby.

[@NannupTiger]

Hey BC 👋 I always love it when you put out a new episode 🤩

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Good morning BC I love to listen to you as I get ready in the morning ❤ hope you have a great Monday ❤️

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Hi Jordan :)

[@journeysalkebulan]

Murder of a baby is definitely not the answer! 😢😔😔😔😢😢😢

[@sarahjeannepeterson5536]

Thanks BC for another great presentation! You work very diligently to provide us with so much detail! 😊 ❤

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Thanks, I appreciate that!

[@abdominalsnowman5848]

Awesome videos I so much look forward to them every Monday…

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Thank you!

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Thanks Mr briefcase 🙏🏿😍👍🏿🔥💕

[@TA-cm9yi]

Good morning BC from Exshaw Alberta 😊., poor child.

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Morning

[@jenjaffray5850]

Oooh, this was a good one. Such details thank you! So sad for Mary's baby girl. If only she'd thought her grandmother would've been a kinder sort, to receive Mary and her daughter with loving arms, Mary's actions hopefully would've been different....

[@AngelofDarkness1978]

RIP 🪦 sweet baby girl fly high 😢 such a sad story and Mary didn’t deserve what she was given by her town and family but at least she was able to live a happy long life with her kids and have her own place in the world such a sad story

[@patriciamartinez5836]

Always interesting material.👍♥️👍

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Thankyou :)

[@Rumpelstiltskinsdaughter]

Men had it so easy. They could walk away and the woman was forced to fend for themselves! Desperation and abandonment can cause a woman to do horrible things!

[@kerrywatts5740]

What a sad end to her baby's life! I'm sure that back in those days, life was extremely hard for an unwed mother. I have no doubt she loved her baby, but the tragedy of murdering her daughter would bring excruciating guilt! Thanks again Brief Case for another eye-opening account into what life was like back in that century!!!

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Thanks Kerry

[@Alle8ia]

So sad for the baby.

[@chrissilvester5663]

Love all this incredible content man especially content like this that go way back many many years that most of us haven't even heard of before. Makes it more fascinating & intriguing to listen too. Keep up the great work man & I look forward to another episode of Brief Case

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Thanks, I appreciate that!

[@maryrichardson6029]

Always interesting Thank you ❤

[@coxmosia1]

What did they expect given the hardships and poverty of the times. I don't condone her actions, but for goodness sake, give the woman a break. BC you find and narrate some of the most interesting cases. Thank you.

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Thanks

[@jimmyavpi]

She didn't deserve a break. The only break she did deserve was her neck as she fell through the trap door. Evil woman that she was..

[@pearlsaminger9544]

Wool hoooo lunchtime and Brief Case ! I might have to finish it later as I'm at work

[@PamelaTitterington]

Thanks for really good story sadly all to true,the women were always stigmatized,by a cruel, society, supposedly with high morals ,whilst condemning the poorer classes judging them ,they were such hypocrites ,😮

[@rneustel388]

Thanks for sharing the coverage of this very sad case.

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Thanks for listening

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I Love it when Brief Case uploads another great case I enjoy watching and rewatching all of his cases

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Thanks Bobby

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You are so welcome!

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👍 although I'm yet to watch the video 😅 Thanks for consistent top-notch uploads! Much appreciation, from South Africa 🇿🇦

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Thanks :)

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Thank you❤ love your work❤😊

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Thank you!

[@deedragongirl]

Hello BC, I start crying on this case once again. Since yesterday, I had an eventful day as a photographer! 😁

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Hi Dee, Hope all is good :)

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@@BriefCaseOfficial Yes, I feel positivity too!

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Another fabulous upload!thank you for another Brief (dramatic pause) Case!😅😂❤

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It's a happy Monday, BC! Thanks for your stories. 🇨🇦❤️

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Love your videos! ❤

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Thank you so much!!

[@prevost8686]

Life was extremely difficult for men and women in those days for poor working people. An uneducated man’s life was sure to be hard and relatively short. I’m not making light of the lives of women back then but the reality was that it was a very hard life for poor men and women back then. It certainly wasn’t “The Good Old Days “ for the majority of poor people back then.

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Good morning everyone

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Hi Jacqui

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*G'day!!!

[@ColleenD78]

It's amazing to me that such a natural, godly and beautiful thing such as sex was SUCH a shameful thing back then and was thus the ruin of so many womens lives. It's quite sad how many children had to be hidden, sold, killed or outright abandoned because of such insane social rules 😢

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That was refreshing ❤

[@margaretkerr4591]

Monday! Monday! Brief case day❤

[@helenaolsson7990]

She should have brought the baby to her granny. Instead she killed her baby . 😢

[@lynn5050]

Happy Monday, BC and everyone. ❤

[@BriefCaseOfficial]

Hello Lynn :)

[@EarthAngelPreparedness]

Happy Monday ☕😊

[@lynn5050]

Just wondering - who thinks she was guilty? It's a difficult one. From testimonies, as to her character, it seems unlikely that the baby was deliberately harmed. Poor Mary but, at least, she did get a better life!

[@Laura-k5u]

What a tragic situation for this poor girl. I hope she received happiness and love when she married.

[@rhainaweissehexe3899]

The Father's of these poor children were never responsible? These Women were left to fend for themselves and their children. Many may well have been the Master's of the houses where they worked. Rape. Women have never had it easy and are still opressed by men in general. A Woman has to use her wits and self-preservation skillls almost like this is a primal defense, as it has always been. Rest in peace Mary and baby ❤️

[@janiprice6117]

So nobody cared about her or the kid until it went missing? Nice, real nice.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

Her child deserved leniency. This is a perfect example of "let's forget about the real victim", and give all our sympathy to the perpetrators of crime". Why is it, there was little thought, given to a child, whose life was cut short? Her grandmother was ready to help her, for goodness sakes! She was embarrassed, and that was her fault.

[@daynasafranek7807]

She was embarrassed and also faced the grim reality of the times. Her grandmother told her to thank the Lord that Rhoda had died and that exactly is why she was embarrassed. Society only cared about the baby when she murdered it. The only people who seemed to care were those at the work house and they only cared for a reason.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

What do you think she should have done? Find an affordable day care? Apply for aid to mothers with dependent children? Put the girl up for adoption, whith all these people clamouring after babies? Get a job? Oh, yes, that's right, most of these things didn't exist and "moral people" didn't hire unmarried mothers. Not a lot of options, are there? I agree that child should have had all the leniency, yet even if she were to survive, that child woul dprobably even have been segregated in the orphange as an illegitimate child. The laws made sure that these children were thoroughly punished for their parent's misteps, and this young woman had the rare chance to go on.

[@KimberlyLopez-hp7yj]

Good afternoon Brief Case I'm late and it's so sad that Mary or any woman to have to feel this way 😢 because of the rules of the time in which Mary was pregnant so sad and thank you for another great one

[@diannefoster8890]

Funny how the society changed their minds afterwards.

[@aprilkalcsa9336]

I can't imagine anyone killing their own child. It's just too horrific.

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Truthfully 3 for now! 🩷😻😮

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A Good Presentation as usual 👋

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Thanks

[@Peaceandlove13]

I feel sorry for the baby and mother,as usual the father is nowhere to be found,she didn't get herself pregnant but he gets away scotch free.😢

[@jimmyavpi]

She dropped her own knickers. If she kept them up, she wouldn't have got pregnant. She murdered the baby, not the father, just remember that..

[@KathleenCalhoun-em6ys]

This lady lucked out more than most considering having lived during a time when societal mores prevailed to the detriment and chagrin of such young women (always the women, not the men) who found themselves in this unfortunate and dreaded situation. Brief Case could spend his lifetime researching these kinds of cases and still not cover them all before retiring, and I would have to say that he finally stumbled across one that turned out a little different. Lol. Oh yeah, good for her!

[@Mytwohearts]

Happy Monday all on this wonderful muggy morning

[@gilbertoantoniomartins1323]

Hello everyone...Hello B.F.....have U all a nice day night...with my Greetings from São Paulo.

[@Adasteia]

Utterly disgsting and Evil that some sociatal norms make pathways for child abuse, neglect and murder !.To add insult to all injuries the state then.prosecutes but beforehand has so many niiggling, picky rules that they refuse help ! They are complicite and should be held accountable !. This goes for Elders too ! The damned laws have to change!

[@shannoncarlson6960]

How wonderful that unaliving your daughter gets you a minor jail term, and a new family. Beautiful 😢

[@TheSaneHatter]

The hypothesis that her eventual husband was the baby's father is not unsound, but it also brings up the question of how he was able to forgive her for the child's death. Before that, however, another possibility occurred to me: what if the conception of Mary's child was "non-consensual"? If the child was born of rape (which is not impossible) it would explain both why she wouldn't name the father and why her maternal bond, as it were, eventually snapped. Just think about it . . .

[@toscadonna]

Why didn’t he marry her when she told him she was pregnant? Why didn’t he provide her money and a place to stay?

[@chris-r8q1j]

Wow, amazing story. These old stories are so intetesting. It funny how Our legal system hasnt changed and neither have some in soceity either