Cause she’s a woman

I Totally Agree with You.

I agree. Unfortunately, that's the way "polite society" was then.

​@@kathyjones1576exactly, it's a sign of the times. Men can't get pregnant so there's the pass for no responsibility. Also paternity tests weren't a thing so even if the mom could identify the father, all he had to do was deny and persuade others that she was "loose" which put doubt on paternity. Worse, if they were rich, they could throw the mom in an institution and send the kid away like one president did. Can't remember his name but he married a girl he was basically a father to. Even stated when the girl was eight, he was gonna wait to marry her. He...was a gross guy.

100% correct

YES GOD! BECAUSE THESE TWO WERE FROM THE HEARTLESS LEGION OF DEMONS that came through their souls and took it over.

Thank God all those children are in heaven now

still happening :(

Still happens except the government is now paying for it with our tax money.😢

It was not always due to financial or social disadvantages. I remember, when reading about the life of St Theresa of Lisieux (France), that her mother was unable to breastfeed and had to resort to wetnurses. They would be in the countryside while the family lived in town, so visits were infrequent. During one visit, they realised that their son was gravely undernourished but unfortunately it was too late to save him. The parents were devastated. I was very shocked that such a thing could happen but after this video I realise that it was sadly quite common

She should have had the death penalty,the silent partner in this horror story.

Because it was a man's world.

Because if they kept her, her medical bills would have been on the government. So, shall we say she had... cancer... this is saving the government money and making her and her family responsible for her final days and her final bills.

PRECISELY!!!

@@MinaOmega Which means that everything is still about saving and making a dollar not actually caring and empathizing with our fellow man. This is what is going to be the downfall of humanity - Our ability to get alone, respect each other's boundaries and love one another as we would love ourselves.

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😢smh🤦‍♀️ I’m actually afraid that times are devolving again to this sad state of affairs…although we’re in ‘23! 🫤

Sadly fact...sex trafficking

@@59tante What does that have to do with what I wrote?

@@parasite674It is possible that one of the reasons these young women/girls were brought into the household as a servant was to serve their employer (likely though coercion and/or without their consent) in that matter.

Thankyou

Brief Case, you should do a story on the home for unwed mothers run by nuns. Which one, I’ll have to look up. But the one I read about, they unearthed a mass grave of babies. Horrible! I was in one of those hideous facilities/ concentration camp. It was like being in hell.💀

Misquote here! The love of money is the root of all evil. Money itself is neither good nor bad.

Lack of sufficient money leads to many terrible things: in particular, hunger and unstable access to decent housing.

Thanks Brenda

Thank you for this comment. Idk why I thought they were paying the mothers. The way someone would pay a surrogate. So I was confused a bit. But this fixes what I was thinking. This is so sad.

​@@kenya1067the pay for the mothers actually isn't enough for one person to live on. Women at the time supplemented low wages with sex work to have a full stomach and shelter. Children out of wedlock made it impossible for women to get work outside of the sex trade. It is better to prevent a pregnancy or even abort a child because there no support for the child to be productive member of society. Even now children are still very expensive and men don't really understand that. In the US there's 400000 children in the Foster care with no chance of adoption or successful life.

My goodness doesn't anyone read any more?

Good morning x

Good morning to you as well.

Morning 🫶🏼

Good morning from Michigan, USA! ❤️

Good morning all🌄👌❣️

Happens every day but legally by abortion

Without justifying in any way those crimes, we have to remember that, in that time, babies and small infants were thought to be only capable of eating and sleeping. The fact that small children are capable of emotions and therefore emotional trauma is very recent. Even in the second part of XXth century, children were commonly operated without anesthetics as it was assumed by "science" that they could not suffer as their nervous system was not yet fully developped.

lol, me too

thanks, I appreciate that!

All given life by our Creator, each one unique ❤️

"There is no such thing as illegitimate children,only illegitimate parents".

How sick you are, blaming just the man.

What part of this story sounded like Sarah had no choice but to go along with it. She sealed the deal with each of the mothers. She was just as culpable.

@@mountainman4859 That's why I said "in any case." Maybe she was threatened with death of her and her children if she didn't go along with the plan. Also I stated that I still think she's guilty, but was it conscious compliance? I'm not sure on that one. Poor women at that time and women period had very few options for what kind of life they could have and do in society.

Agree with all and it was not just in Australia that this happened. All those poor maids probably raped by their employers. But as for contraception, was any available at the time?

@@iseultbourke4692 I was about to say the same. That's a remarkable number of domestic servants that need to quietly palm off a baby. I believe the fathers of most if not all of those infants are in fact "wed", just not to the children's mothers.

​@@iseultbourke4692there is always the tried & true method of keeping your trouser snake in your own britches.

So what's the excuse for the way children are murdered EVERY day NOW? Unwed mothers living on welfare with boyfriends "staying" there. Children with no last name, children being locked away for YEARS and no one knows. Our own morality is no better than it was back then. The Americas and Australia were built by prisoners from Europe. This world is rife with filth.

I don't understand why these backfiring practices were kept for so long... there was also a custom in austro-hungarian empire (at least there) that prevented military-like occupations (not only soldiers, but also guards, gamekeepers etc.) from getting married until some degree of income, which meant they had to wait until they were even almost 40. This was intended to protect their families and ensure stable income. But what actually happened was that they of course had families, but were not married, so it even made the life of their children (and partner) much worse, because these occupations were also quite dangerous, meaning that the father could have died before he was allowed to marry and legitimize his children (and provide some kind of compensation due to being harmed while in service). I saw these cases many times, the children sometimes listed their father in censuses and their marriage records, even though it was "illegal" when they were not legitimate. I've also seen a case when a daughter of such couple married aged 18 and her parents married about a year AFTER her, so her legitimization was entered subsequently into her marriage record creating a mess :D (I genuinely think, even though I have no statistics to prove that, that there were more families of these occupations who lived years unmarried and hoping for a good end than the intended families that really started after obtaining the permission.)

Envious. Lucky you.

Sounds lovely :)

from a chilly rainy day in Ontario

Thank you very much, Tamesin, that is very much appreciated

Your research, attention to detail, story structure and presentation deserve way more than 5 quid. Thank you for your amazing work on a very sad and disturbing story from Australian history. Take care B.C.

Time change across the pond

@Agapy8888 Ohhhhhj! Makes sense. 😀

Hi B.C. You must research night and day to find these cases. I’m so grateful to you for allowing cases to be heard that probably have been long forgotten about. This case is so very sad. I can’t imagine handing my child over to someone who professed to care for it along with weekly payments, only to find out that they died months ago probably from starvation or were killed. They most likely paid for weeks when their child probably had died months earlier. I hate how greed consumes people. At first I thought, out of 10 children, there would be a few babies in between that didn’t make it until the ages were revealed. Thank -you B.C. Another case no one would’ve known of without your endless research. I love you and until the next brief….case😊

Thankyou so much Susan :)

@@BriefCaseOfficial You're welcome!!! You and your body of work are rarefied.

Good morning!

Likewise

Thanks Suzie, same to you

Abominable. Abdominal is a pretty funny typo

And the beheaded babies? Gtfo

Much appreciated

@@BriefCaseOfficial well deserved ❤️

Thanks Laura

Appreciate it!

Morning :)

Thank you!

Thank you kindly

@BriefCaseOfficial you're welcome have a good week

I agree. Why would they murder a baby when the parents were willing to pay weekly - as long as they could see her? That makes no sense. Like you, I bet it was the husband who insisted on the murders, and the wife had to go along with it. A man who could kill infants was certainly capable of harming women too.

My bet was that both of them implemented the plan to kill the babies. She is the one who looked the mothers in the face and sweetly assured them she would love and care for them. She was as guilty. All she had to do was mosey on off to the police station without his knowledge and turn him in if he acted alone.

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Thanks for watching

@@BriefCaseOfficial my pleasure

Thankyou :)

Thank you for watching the videos :)

Wow, snowing in Finding, that's nice, it's still really hot here

Thanks for listening

Coming back as a King or Queen would not have changed anything, they had no control over the laws of the land.

Thanks again!

@@BriefCaseOfficial I can truthfully say that your cases are never boring.

So nice of you to say, thanks

Thanks for listening

Thank you too!

Well said.

Thanks

😂😂😂💀💀💀 The picture looks haunting.

@@katarinatibai8396 Perfect for Halloween!

After 10 kids.....? She's lucky to be upright.

Thank you!

You're welcome!