[jims69camaro]

yeah, there is a big difference between the girl on the plane and the girl in the school. one of them gave birth to a full term baby and tried to flush it down the toilet, the other had a miscarriage and threw it in the trash can.

ok, since it didn't come out of her normal, like a full term baby would, you can assume that she should have known about it. second, since she threw it in the trash can, she was getting rid of it (if she had known it was a baby). third, the people cleaning the plane knew it was a baby, since they alerted authorities about it. you wouldn't alert authorities about a miscarried embryo, because you couldn't tell what it was or even if it was human. so i think the propensity to take it easy on this girl because she claimed she didn't know what it was is misplaced. again, the people cleaning the plane knew what it was...

i think the police didn't file charges because the baby wasn't viable when it left its mother. by that, they are assuming that the baby wouldn't have lived regardless of what happened. that does not let this girl off of the moral obligation to tell someone.