Infanticide
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I if When I visited the hospital I knew that the birth had taken place about a week before, so I went prepared to see an almost completely recovered young mother, to admire the baby and chat hilariously about the shocks and indignities of the labour ward. It was normal visiting hours so it did not occur to me to ask a nurse if I could see her. Knowing the number of her room, I went straight up to the door and raised my hand to knock. Then I heard a low but quite desperate sobbing, which to my horror stopped on a catching of the breath and turned to a crescendo of screams that pealed down the corridor and brought a staff nurse hurrying to push me out of the way and close the door behind her. For a moment I caught sight of my friend's face, distraught and terrified, eyes screwed up tight.
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