Genny Granados Throws Baby’s Life Away
Houston, TX - Last Saturday, Genny Granados was in labor. She went to the Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital, like you do when you’re about to give birth. But instead of checking herself into the maternity ward, Granados, 29, told ER personnel that she was having stomach pains due to her ulcers. While waiting to be seen, she went into a ladies’ restroom - and then left the hospital.
A few hours later, a custodian responding to reports of blood in the restroom found a newborn baby boy, about six weeks premature, hidden in a trashcan under some paper towels. He wasn’t breathing. Granados had given birth in the restroom, cut the baby’s umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, and thrown him in the trash.
Granados, who also has sons ages 2 and 10, probably knew she was pregnant, since she is not morbidly obese and since she has given birth twice before. Her boyfriend of five years, Alfredo Navarro, says that he did not know she was pregnant and believes he is not the father of the newborn. Navarros says that Genny left with the two older children last week. He complained to police, but he was told there was nothing he could do.
“The police showed up, told me ‘Your girlfriend has all the right to take the children,’ ” Navarro said. Navarro now says that he thinks Granados left the home to “cover it, to cover that she was pregnant.” Granados is a legal resident of the U.S. and has been in the country for several years.
Under Texas’ Baby Moses law, Granados could have handed the baby off to ER personnel or even given birth and left the child without facing charges. There were not signs indicating this in the ER, but the hospital system did have its own signs made and placed in various locations - just not in the particular ER where Granados was. Her attorney says that had Granados known of the law, she would probably not have abandoned her son in the trash. Prosecutors say they think that Granados intentionally covered her pregnancy and had no intention of saving the child. Granados told investigators only that she “already had two children and didn’t want the newborn”, police said.
The baby boy, who was transferred to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, was declared brain-dead on Thursday and will be taken off life support. Granados is in jail on a charge of felony injury to a child. Her bond was raised Thursday from $30,000 to $50,000.
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So sad.
Another case of “PUT DOWN THE PENIS”!!!
Maybe instead of just putting up signs about where to leave an unwanted child, the hospital could outreach to the community and EDUCATE them and assist them in obtaining BIRTH CONTROL!!!
Now she doesn’t have to bother with ANY of her kids.
That would be too easy. Instead we have the religious right forcing their morals down our throats and we get dead babies in return.
Besides, most grown women know how babies are made. She had two. she was just being a heartless selfish bitch.
God, how I hate lawyers sometimes. This creep is trying to make it the hospital’s fault for not having ENOUGH signs posted in enough places. As if that would have guaranteed that the woman wouldn’t have dumped the baby in the trash. “Your honor, she wanted to abandon the baby properly, but in the absence of a sign with instructions, she was forced to put her newborn in the trash can.”
How do you give birth in a public restroom without anyone knowing? Most hospital restrooms are pretty active. I have 2 boys (teenagers) & neither birth was “silent”. I realize the baby was 6wks premature, but this bitch has a seriously high threshhold to pain, or under the influence of some really good shit! Very sad story. She doesn’t look remorseful…just a blank glare!
yep. Well said.
agreed *nodding head*
I was wondering about this, too. How does a woman give birth and then go out and dance at her prom? Or in this case, gather up the kids and leave the hospital? I guess a high level of motivation helps dull the pain or something.
Yeah I can see that as a defence.
What is scarier is - some bleeding hearts will probably accept that defense.
Yeah, and they’ll argue the signs have to be in 20 languages.
Some of the restrooms in the ER area are singles that either sex can use. They do have a panic button which she could have used.
How is the religious right forcing morals down people’s throats? I can walk into any drugstore and get condoms. And nowadays you don’t even have to ask for them- they’re right on the shelf! Ever here of the pill? Nowadays they even make patches you wear like nicotine patches for smokers! In this age of birth control men and women have to be responsible. There is no excuse for an unwanted pregnancy between two consenting people.
My thoughts exactly. Fucking shysters.
If she didn’t want another baby it’s easy enough to go get your tubes tied or to get a hysterectomy.
Not really, even after you’re 21, the doctors will do their best to talk you out of it, unless you have several children. I know my doctor did and I do know of some other ladies whose doctors tried to convience them not to have their tubes even clipped, much less the cut, tie and burn method.
I had the reversible clips and my doctor made me wait 30 days and then tried to reschedule me to “give me some more time to think about it”.
But there are many, many ways to prevent pregnancy, regarless.
That was funny when I first read it, but you know, that could be a valid defense. That just scares the hell out of me.
Re: Tubals…she had two kids and was 29! I am sure there are few docs who would not deny her. A friend of mine had hers done at 21. There really isn’t an age factor, since you could have a 20-year-old (or younger) with 3+ kids; there are cases where it is unethical for a doc to deny a woman a tubal. If a grown woman does not want kids, she should be trying to prevent pregnancy. It’s 2008, how did this chick not know about CONTRACEPTION??? Jesus wept!