Column: Pregnant drug addicts try our patience and empathy, but they don't belong in prison (via latimesopinion)
, the 25-year-old Hanford, Calif., meth addict who delivered a stillborn baby boy in September: revulsion, sadness, pity, sympathy.
My colleague Alexandra Wigglesworth, who reported the story, visited Becker in jail, where she’s being held in lieu of $5 million bail.Advertisement Becker’s record as a mother has been dismal. She has given birth to three other children, two of whom were born with meth in their systems. The oldest has been adopted by a family friend. The two youngest are in the care of Becker’s aunt, Julie Lance, thank God. She is doing a wonderful and important thing.“If they drop these charges and let her out of jail, she’s just going to do this again,” Lance told Wigglesworth.
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