But…I Still Had Partying to Do
*Editor’s Note: Reason #9299284 why I’m a huge advocate for having children when you’re ready, not due to circumstance. This is NOT to say that I am promoting abortion..what I AM saying is that it’s important to be careful so that you won’t have to worry about such things if you’re not prepared. Newsflash people…having a baby is a FULL TIME job. Unfortunately, Rozlynn didn’t realize this. Now, she won’t be doing any partying anytime soon.
Original Article Found at Chicago Tribute
A South Side teenage mother who authorities said no longer wanted a baby because she couldn’t go to parties was held on $600,000 bond Wednesday on charges that she drowned her 5-month-old daughter in a bathtub earlier this month.
Rozlynn Rodgers, 19, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the April 4 death of her daughter, Makalah, at their home in the 7800 block of South Ingleside Avenue. She later told authorities that she drowned the child because she no longer wanted to be a mother, officials said.
Rodgers told police “she didn’t want to be a mom anymore because she couldn’t go to parties if she had to take care of the baby,” Assistant State’s Atty. Mary Anna Planey said Wednesday during a bond hearing before Judge Laura Sullivan.
Planey said that Rodgers placed the baby in a full bathtub on the afternoon of April 4. When the child slid under the water, Rodgers sat and watched for several minutes, Planey said. Another person in the house called 911 after Rodgers removed Makalah from the bathtub.
The baby later was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest, and the medical examiner reported that her lungs were saturated with water, Planey said. Though the original autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner’s office was inconclusive, the manner of death was later changed to homicide, police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said Wednesday.
April 30, 2008 at 7:06 am
This saddens me because in CA we have a law that states that you can give up an infant within 72 hours of birth so that foolishness like this doesn’t happen. You can give the infant up at any ER or Fire Department and walk away, no questions asked. But to murder your child because now you can’t go out and party? Well I hope the parties in the cell block are rockin’ because that’s where she needs to be for a good while.
April 30, 2008 at 8:45 am
you know the old adage that “it takes a village to raise a child” is still true. That 19 year old was to young to be responsible for another human beings. Where were the parents, the aunts, the uncles … anybody who was responsible for the 19 year old. I know we say as parents that if they are grown enough to lay down and made them, then they are grown enough to take care of them. SO NOT TRUE as evidenced by this article! Just because this daughter had a baby does not make her a mother. She was 19 and wanted to party and her maturity level was so low, that her only recourse was to KILL her baby. Does that mean she never had anyone to help her out with the care of her baby? A 19 year does not have the emotional maturity to nuture another’s life. They need to be taught how to be a parent. They need to be taught how to care for a baby. Man my heart is bleeding because a baby’s life was lost unnecessarily. The article even indicates that other people were in the house at the time. Dang!
April 30, 2008 at 9:35 am
damn see if the children were more aware they would know there are dropoff areas in every city, state possible, people just dont give a shit about informing their children, they send htem in the streets dumb and they do dumber shit, they are gonna whip her ass in jail and she’ll spend eternity in hell…oh i think i woke up mad this morning…lol
i dont know but when i was raising my kids i whipped they asses, i told the real on how shit is and now they are responsible young adults, i use to think parents were sugar coating shit but it seems like they just arent saying shit..
April 30, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I know I’m supposed to leave a reply but I can’t. I don’t know what to say, I don’t know what to think. My feelings of sympathy has turned to rage and its so so very sad when there are women having babies and killing them for their own selfish reasons, when we have other women paying thousands of dollars to be artificially impregnated or given fertility pills to reproduce. Just give the baby up for adoption…please, there are people out there that would do anything for a baby and here she is killing her own flesh and blood to go party. God help her please and all the other women that are like her.
April 30, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I wish I could beat that chick’s ass. Even though “chick” isn’t really the word I was going for but I’m trying to keep it clean. How you anyone be so evil and hard hearted towards a baby. All because she wanted to go out and party. I’m praying for this world.
April 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Karma came immediately for her. So many Selfish people. A shame that some people can’t have children because of fertility issues but want them bad and then some who don’t want kids but are able to produce at drop of a dime. There was a family that could have taken care of that baby girl. RIP.
April 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I can’t believe this!!! I was 19 when I got pregnant, and truthfully it changed my HOT ASS around. If this hood rat wanted to party and kick it she should have taken all that into a count prior to decideing to carry the child to term.
I can’t stand when people take the shit out on the innocent child as if they asked to come into this messed up world. Truthfully I think they should drown this hoe so she can see just what she put her own flesh through during her last minutes on this earth. Then resuscitate her and make her relieve the shit every year on the anniversary of that babies death.
Sounds crazy I know…but hmmmm maybe they should start making the animals who commit these acts against kids re-live what they put them through over and over and over again.
May 2, 2008 at 12:03 am
My mother was 17 and my father was 19 when I was born. Her younger sister had her first child of five total when she was 15. We were all dirt poor. None of us were abused or not taken care of. Age is not relevant. A distant cousin had her toddler beat to death by her boyfriend for crying and they were both over 21. Raising a child is about love and being able to sacrifice yourself because the one you are raising is unable to fend for itself. Most people can love but some people never have the compassionate ability needed to sacrifice.
Just recently I read on a site where in Rock Island Illinois a 21-year-old mother and a friend were trying to hide the fact that her toddler had been beaten and bruised. Somewhere in their minds they got the idea that if they dipped the child into boiling hot water the bruises on the legs would disappear. Now there is a toddler laying in the University of Iowa hospital in danger of losing its legs and its life. And the mother and her friend are sitting in jail. Where would two adults come up with such an insane idea? I cannot even read or talk about the event without breaking into tears. Even if the kid manages to live, the physical and psychological injury and trauma will follow him around for the rest of his life.
May 4, 2008 at 1:19 am
I feel so badly for this child and her. If she wasn’t ready to be a mother, she could have gave the baby to a local hospital. It would have been better than what she has done. This is something she will have to live with for the rest of her life. Senseless.
May 4, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Sad….selfish ….senseless
what has the world become?
May 9, 2008 at 4:47 pm
You know what I going to get into this WHOLE big thing about kids having kids etc but instead I want to address another issue thats related to this issue. DONT HAVE SEX UNTIL YOU ARE MENTAL PREPARED, OLD ENOUGH or MARRIED! Thats the issue, see everything is related to SEX when is comes to kids having kids and even with some grown women. We as women get emotionally attached and then we want to have his baby etc. Making a decision to have sex is a great responsibilty. So make the right decisions. She knew better.
May 14, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Triflin!!!!! Couldn’t she take the baby to a firestation or hospital with no questions asked? That’s how it is in houston so i’m sure it was some kind of system there that she could have resorted to.
July 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm
First of all I had my first child when I was 19, I’m 27 now, married and pregnant with my 3rd child. Even though im married I wasnt “ready” for this child, after all I was on the DEPO SHOT, but you know what, its my baby, its my doing, its my responsablity. This girl obvisouly has to have mental problems. When I found out I was pregnant, I was happy and felt blessed. Damn going to parties! Dont get me wrong, I was still able to go out (and could now if i wasnt pregnant) but my children come first! No one in the right mind would kill their kids simply because they want to party! Im trying to be really careful about what I say because I dont want my anger to run away with me, but bottom line, if that bitch knew she wanted to party, she should have kept her legs shut. I would never have an abortion or kill my kids because I want to party, but then im not insane. Some people will never be ready to have kids, yet they are fucking any thing in pants. There are so many women/couples that cant have children, just let the baby go to some one that does want them. Sorry but she is nuts. I think I will stop here. I just hate when people hurt babies/kids. Makes no sense.