The Shocking Conclusion To The Christy Freeman Case
September 21st, 2007 by Joe CiccantiNews broke this week in the Christy Freeman case leaving many people shocked and outraged. Freeman is the Ocean City woman originally accused of killing her newborn child in 2004 and keeping remains of other infants around her home. We learned from the Worcester County State’s Attorney Joel Todd that all charges against Freeman were dropped because there was no proof that the fetal remains found at Christy Freeman’s Ocean City home were the result of a live birth. Here is part of their conclusion:
Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Tasha Greenberg testified that the remains could have been stillborn first. The medical examiner said Freeman had a history of stillborn births, a history of seizures, an infection in the placenta, plus she used tobacco and, allegedly, cocaine. Based on those and other factors, the medical examiner concluded there was no proof of live births.
What I can’t understand is what several callers had brought up. Freeman had admitted to investigators that she gave birth to a live baby sometime in 2004, but allowed the infant to drown in the toilet. In addition why aren’t there charges based on evidence of tobacco and cocaine use?
Dr. Greenberg also testified:
“cocaine use alone can lead to “increased placental eruptions†which cuts off the flow of blood to the baby and can also cause vaso constriction which also cuts off the blood supply to the baby.”
Jay Hancock of the Ocean City Town Council says he is not completely surprised of the outcome saying he knew that this was going to be a difficult prosecution because of the very complex nature of the case. Don’t you think she should have been charged with SOMETHING? Or do you believe investigators made the right decision here in letting her go?
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September 21st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I don’t think a case can be made solely on a confession. (the jails would be full of the assassins from the ‘grassy knoll”) There has to be some sort of corroberating evidence, and the autopsy results from the M.E. were inconclusive as to facts of the death. The best they could hope for in a hypothetical situation with different circumstances would be running a makeshift abortion clinic without a license. Is that even a crime?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:29 pm
What do “we” want a Grand Jury to do? Base their conclusions/decisions on personal beliefs and/or emotions? Didn’t they make their decision as they were instructed to do…based on the evidence and information provided them by the ME and whatever other investigative means. Like it or not, seems to me they abided by what the law demands. Cocaine is quite one matter and to my recollection there may have been other cases in the land which, because of it’s use, brought charges and a guilty verdict to a few for the same thing but wouldn’t that have to be proven, also? As to tobacco use…get real! No, a pregnant woman should have more sense than to use drugs, smoke or drink during an entire pregnancy but charge with “something” because of it? Perhaps…and yet do that and what’s next? Charging a pregnant woman’s stillbirth or miscarriage because of her diet creating heart or other health problems such as pregnancy onset diabetes bringing about the loss? Being involved in an accident and not wearing a seat belt? The fact that she told officers about the “live birth and letting the foetus drown” is surely more an indicatior that there was a psychological problem rather than a downright malicious or criminal one…wouldn’t you think? After all, she’d had…according to the ME…mutiple pregnancies none of which came to full term or resulted in live births. One would think that continuing to get pregnant she wanted a child? But if she didn’t and spent so many years becoming pregnant only to lose them…something isn’t right. If the woman needs anything it may well be help, not jail. And what IS the law in MD or DE with regards to murder or assault/attack of a pregnant woman, resulting in the loss of her unborn baby…is the attacker charged and found guilty of a double murder…or simply of that of the mother-to-be?
September 25th, 2007 at 7:51 am
This has got to be one of the most absurd cases I have read about in awhile. Does anyone with any authority have a smither of conscience or the will to just do the right thing? How do you explain all the fetal remains that this property gathered? Were they buried there by the family dog? Was this woman running an abortion clinic out of her home? and why is she allowed to just drown a child in the toilet and get away with it? It is hard to imagine that with all the laws on the books and some of them even have several definitions, there was not one that applied to this woman! So she is allowed to go home without any punsihment or mental health assessment and told to be on her merry way. What happens now? Do we wait to find an older child buried in her yard before anyone gets their head out of their behind and do something about it? And what happens to this next person with mental problems that decides to do a little rough justice of their own to this woman? Do we throw the book at them, or tell them to just go home until we figure it all out? Shame on the justice system in Ocean City Maryland!
September 25th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
OJ did it, and so did Christy Freeman. If they can find incriminating evidence on OJ Simpson, then they can find evidence on Christy Freeman. That is all I have to say!! I am disgusted at the system’s way of governing their laws.