Morgan
Smith
Blog
Critique
April
16, 2014
I found a blog on
Buzzfeed.com and the articles title is Utah Woman Arrested After 7 Dead Babies
Are Found In Her Home by Alison Vingiano. In the blog she talks about Megan
Huntsman, 39 who had given birth to six newborn babies and suffocating five of
the babies to death the sixth one died from natural cause but is being tested
at Utah’s medical examiners office. Megan’s husband Darren West found the first
baby in their garage in a cardboard box and called the police to report it. The
police suspect she has given birth to the babies in between the time periods of
1996 to 2006. In the blog the press reported that Megan has 3 other children,
two who are adults and one who is still a teenager. None of Megan’s family knew
about these babies or their deaths. The press asked her husband Darren West how
he didn’t know about Megan’s pregnancy’s and he said “that’s the million-dollar
question. Amazing” and I think that’s what a lot of America is trying to also
understand is how this woman gave birth to 6 children and not a single one of
her family members was able to notice that she was pregnant. Also the press
talked to Megan’s neighbors Kathie and Aaron Hawker and they said that Megan
hadn’t lived in her home for a couple years and that the 3 daughters had been
living alone inside the house which makes another twist to the story because
how could they be living inside a house where there mom was storing dead
bodies. Megan’s set bail is at 6 million dollars, this
relates to chapter 9 deviances in the book because it talks about crimes,
police and the death penalty. Megan committed the crime against the person,
which is violent crime with murdering her babies. In the chapter it talks about
symbolic-interaction theory and within the theory it goes into detail about the
labeling theory which is the idea that deviance and conformity don’t result
from what the person did when committing their crime but how others look at the
crime and the person and how they react to it. I personally think that the blogger to this
article Alison did a good job letting the public know how the family felt and
how they were unaware of the circumstances. But I wish that she would have went
more into depth with what the police were saying and what charges she could
possibly be facing, I feel like this blog was taken lightly and it should have
been more geared towards the crimes and what the police say to this horrible
crime. She should have talked about when her court date was and more about what
the families’ true thoughts were about the situation they were under. With the
statements given by the ex husband and the family it made it seem fishy about
whether or not the family truly did know about that their mother/ wife was
pregnant not just once but SIX times and that they never asked where the babies
went or why she was in the hospital or going to the doctor, none of it just
seemed to add up. Overall I do think that this blog was good and interesting
but there are some things that I disagree with some things about this article
but to me it related to chapter 9 about deviance a lot.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/a-woman-in-utah-was-arrested-after-7-dead-babies-were-found
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