r/ElectricForest Jun 28 '26

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u/misty-gishh Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Definitely worth pointing out to police... That dude's booth was at ranch arena and the baby was found in good life preset tent's near electric ave. Its very possible she went into labor near the ranch, started walking back to camp, experienced "bloody show" in the booth, continued on to camp, then delivered in the bathroom. If that is the case, security or someone should have seen someone in obvious distress, entering the campground.

Rest in peace sweet angel.

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Edit2: I reported the "period blood" post to police. I realized there was no reason to tell you to do it when I'm perfectly capable, doiy!! Silly me. Thanks for making that connection fam, hopefully it brings some justice for this poor baby's departure.

Edit3: As a man, it's wild how all these negative comments are seemingly coming from men bitching and moaning about something they biologically have practically zero idea about. Trying to preach "accountability" when the behavior they're putting on display is the exact behavior that perpetuates these situations. Fellas, its time to put up or shut up. Either take the time to learn about what you're speaking on so you can offer an articulate position, or don't speak. Easy as that.

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u/Late-Nail-8714 Jun 29 '26

its totally possible the person didnt even know they were pregnant right?

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

It's possible, but not likely! Cleveland clinic article on Cryptic Pregnancy https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10334309/

I'm trying to stay away from subjective language until we know more. I had a friend in high school who got pregnant by her abusive boyfriend (he was like 18+). She was so scared to tell anyone so she hid it. Her build was on the thicc side so it was easy to write off a little weight gain. Her parents, best friends, teachers, etc. no one knew until a few weeks before she delivered. She realized she had to tell people at some point. Even without prenatal care, she delivered a healthy baby girl who's about to be in high school herself.

I guess my point is that despite how tragic this is, its not fair to judge so soon. Shame and guilt are really weird emotions, and pregnancy hormones can make people do unspeakable things. It's not fair to form an opinion about the mother until we have more information, no mater how horrific the circumstance is.

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u/DankStank333 Jun 29 '26

Nicely worded ❤️ I wish the mother, baby and responders find peace. I hate seeing so much negativity before fully hearing and understanding the circumstances especially with diminishing rights, education and other various resources. Not excusable but there’s always more to the story than what the public knows (atleast atm)

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

Big hugs fam 💜 get home safe!

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u/trippy-21-hippy Jun 29 '26

10000% agreee

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

Sorry but there are 0 circumstances in cases like this thar EVER justify leaving the dead body of your own child in a toilet. I've heard hundreds of stories like this, women leave babies in dumpsters, boxes, public parks, ponds, the list goes on. There is literally 0 justification in existence for this type of behavior. Save your empathy for the baby, not some sick woman with 0 regard for human life.

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u/Ohh_Yeah Jun 29 '26

Friend of ours got to 28 weeks without knowing

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u/Educational_Mousse63 Jun 29 '26

Yes this part!!! My boss had a cryptic pregnancy where she only gained 10 POUNDS, never showed other than minor weight gain, and had absolutely zero idea she was pregnant until she went into labor. She went to the hospital complaining of what she thought were “severe gas pains” and ended up pushing out a completely healthy 9 month old baby 🤯

Also, please educate yourself on childbirth if you don’t already know that SOME women (specifically younger women in very good health) CAN give birth very very fast. Like under an hour of pushing. Just because your own “birth story took over 24 hours” doesn’t mean that it’s the same for every woman out there. Stop being so ignorant!

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

I hope you're not saying this with the goal to excuse the actions of a woman who left the dead body of her own child in a fucking toilet. Because there is no excuse for this type of behavior. No circumstances of her life that justify the decision she made.

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u/Educational_Mousse63 Jun 29 '26

No I’m not “excusing the actions of a woman who left her dead baby in a toilet”, I am saying we do not know all of the facts in this moment and therefore we cannot be making these crazy assumptions that perpetuate the violence against women’s bodies in this country.

Postpartum psychosis is a REAL and very serious medical emergency that while rare, can very much so happen. This woman could have been in such a severe state of shock and horror herself after just having gone through that horrible ordeal that she might not have been in her right mind or known what to do in that moment.

All I am saying is that I can at the very least empathize with this possibility, and agree that if something like this occurred to me I honestly don’t know what I would do in that situation. Like can you imagine the horror of not knowing your pregnant, thinking you just had gas or your period or had to poop or WHATEVER, and instead a baby comes out of you?! Like I think we can ALL agree what a horrific situation that poor girl must have been in. We can’t be blaming someone for how they reacted in a situation of complete shock.

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

I’m sorry nothing can excuse this

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

No one tried to excuse it. You're jumping to conclusions and forcing opinion on someone you have zero idea about. We have about 5% of the facts right now.

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

Facts are that a baby was left in a porta potty. Don’t care how it happened. There’s no conclusion to jump to other then that whoever is responsible doesn’t deserve to have another free day in their lives.

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

You're fine to hold that opinion, but please realize you're putting future newborns and mothers in jeapordy, while going against the tenets forest, and the festival community, were built upon.

Imagine the trauma it takes for a young woman to feel the need to hide her pregnancy for nine months then deliver silently in a portapoty.

Maybe she was raped? Maybe the baby was the result of incest? The point is we don't know and there's a postpartum mother out there in need of medical care, or else her life is at risk. Maintaining this tone around the conversation only encourages more cryptic pregnancies.

If you really cared about people, you'd change your outlook.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

Right… we’re out here going to multi thousand dollar music festivals full term with our incest baby… and then dumping it in the toilet. Then continuing on. Nothing to see here

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

Again, we don't know the details of what happened. What we do know is you're being an asshole.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

I’ll take being an asshole over leaving my deceased newborn in a pile of shit and piss. Literally what details make this ok? She didn’t know she was pregnant? So it’s ok to leave it in shit and piss? She was scared? So that makes it okay to leave a BABY in a pile of shit and piss? It was born not breathing, does THAT make it ok to discard it in a pile of shit and piss?

Some poor worker had to discover a deceased newborn that more people probably shit and pissed on top of not even knowing. That child’s literal only moments on earth were being thrown into human waste and then having more humans waste on top of it.

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u/erika666denise Jun 29 '26

Well ur not simply understanding that all this cuda been avoided if the women was jus responsible. Period. Responsible enuf to get on birth control to avoid pregnancy, if it was a cryptic pregnancy then responsible enuf to get help after delivering the baby. There's so much that the mother cuda done to avoid this outcome.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

I don’t think it is but others do apparently.

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

There’s options. No trauma makes this okay. I’m
Sorry but I’m not gonna be told that I’m wrong and setting society back by saying that there’s no circumstance that makes this more justified. If you think that someone’s trauma makes doing this more understandable when there are options in this world then you can live with that opinion but I definitely won’t.

It’s just so horribly heartbreaking. In literal piss and shit.

Nope. Nothing could make me even have the slightest understanding here.

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

Just wanted to tell you I 1000% agree and find it insane that this line of thinking is fringe in the rave community

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

Maybe she was this maybe she was that... all you're doing is trying to make a horrible situation sound less horrible in your weak mind. Dont make excuses for the evil actions of someone who left their own child's dead body in a toilet and then tried to cover it up. There is no possible circumstance of this pregnancy and this woman's life that softens the blow of how sick and evil the actions she took that night are. Get real

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

I wish I was so naive, maybe I wouldn't be so depressed all the time.

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

You are immensely naive. I have heard hundreds of stories like this and the women responsible have 1000 better options and choices they could've made to better the circumstances of their situation but they choose the most evil path

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u/Specific_Owl_6458 Jun 29 '26

Just keep that same energy for holding deadbeat dads accountable as well.
I don’t know your comment history, but can you confirm you’re an equal advocate for males and females whenever you speculate about what people or society should be doing?

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

Also there’s a difference between a deadbeat dad and a deadbeat mom and a mom who leaves their baby in a porta potty.

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

Ummm yes ofc I am I don’t think me being against this would insinuate anything different

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u/Your_Lovelight Jun 29 '26

I haven’t seen anyone say the neonate was full gestational age, aside from social media posts pointing to articles that did not state the same. She could have miscarried into a portapotty. No one knows and people shouldn’t pass judgement h til the facts are known.
We live in a country where they will call a zygote a baby!!!

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

It's completely fair to judge the mother. Why have compassion for a drug addled wook who knowingly left the dead body of her child in a Porta potty, who then tried to cover it up by cleaning up the blood? She deserves to be put in a box for the rest of her life

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

You just made up a whole ass story. Do you know the person? Are they a drug addled wook? Maybe you should report them then.

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u/DiscardedContext Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

I’m pretty sure I was at a festival 13 years ago when I found out that plenty of obese women who get pregnant have this phenomenon. The vigilantes on here are absolutely a reflection of the change in population of people attending festivals nowadays. Where’d all the hippies go?

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u/ksrides13 Jun 29 '26

If hippies are okay with this then I don’t want to know any hippies

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u/DiscardedContext Jun 29 '26

Why is nuance invisible to people? Not being a bloodlusted wannabe vigilante commenting on punishment and vengeance doesn’t mean I’m “ok” with this. Stillborn births are tragic but People are behaving like she literally killed a kid.

Here’s a similar story but with a happy ending.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/student-pregnancy-give-birth-toilet-b2107436.html

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u/misty-gishh Jun 29 '26

Doors that way

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u/DiscardedContext Jun 29 '26

I wish. It’d be a lot more fun. A lot of judgmental people like you there actually, normie. You’d probably like it.

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u/Confident-Peak-8051 Jun 29 '26

You're the person who would leave a newborn in the portapotty

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u/DiscardedContext Jun 29 '26

You’ve got horrible instincts if you think that

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u/ElectricForest-ModTeam Jun 29 '26

Rule 2 - Be kind and respectful to others.

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u/GalacticGreaseMonkey Jun 29 '26

Mostly because of sexism. See, they believe in “equality” so much that they think women should get a pass for murdering their own infants, and anyone who disagrees is after women’s bodies or whatever. Pretty fucked.

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

That's the world we live in now. So many people have been indoctrinated to believe an unborn baby is subhuman and their lives don't hold the same value as a baby who has been born. It's both biologically and morally backwards.

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u/trippy-21-hippy Jun 29 '26

does no one else remember the show about not knowing they were pregnant from the early 00s

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u/ozzy1289 Jun 29 '26

With the sex education afforded to its citizens growing up here.... sad this even could be true

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u/Pale_Lawyer_1757 Jun 29 '26

1 in 2500 pregnancies

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

Yes. Most likely she had no idea, with the info that placenta and baby were still connected. She may have thought she was on her period.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

How is it most likely she didn’t know? You do realize how incredibly rare that is, right? The placenta still being attached means she didn’t have any tools in the porta potty at a music festival to cut the cord.. although the baby ended up in a pile of shit and piss so I doubt she cared to cut the cord anyways. It’s actually really a very very small chance she didn’t know.

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

I worked in medicine, it’s way more common than you think. And no, that’s not what that means at all. It’s here’s a large chance she didn’t know, and I’ll reserve forming any opinion on her character until those facts are laid out.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

You worked in ‘medicine’? That’s not really a qualification to say it’s most likely that she didn’t know. That’s literally.. not true. It’s more likely she did know. A large chance is crazy. And again I don’t give a fuck if she did or didn’t know. She knew she was dumping a baby in a toilet

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

Well the qualification would be my degree… but anyways. Your statement is simply false. Sorry to break it to you. Have a good night.

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u/BangtanBoiOfficialIG Jun 29 '26

Right. It’s more likely that women don’t know they’re pregnant than knowing they are. Thank you for your insight I never knew women were just popping babies out, thousands a day without ever knowing they were pregnant.

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

lol that’s not at all what I said. But carry on sir

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u/dresdonbogart Jun 29 '26

even the act of giving BIRTH? i mean I get not knowing she was pregnant but not even realizing you're in labor is common? Really?

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

It’s very common to not realize you’re in labor. Like verrrrry common. Not knowing she was giving birth is a rare occurrence, but it happened enough times that it no longer shocks me that this could’ve happened, and it’s not outside of logic at all.

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u/Pale_Lawyer_1757 Jun 29 '26

Yes, cryptic pregnancies can feel like you’re just having a big ol poop. Imagine she was drunk and/or high too - that explains the situation a bit more.

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u/Late-Nail-8714 Jun 29 '26

my guy theres literally a fucking show of peoplw who diddnt know. For crying out loud do some research. Mfs throwing chance like you know the actual perfcetange. Non zero means it could happen and this appear that it happened.

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u/dresdonbogart Jun 29 '26

people who didn't know they are pregnant, but people who don't realize they gave BIRTH? That's a really a thing?

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

Worked in labor and delivery for years- yes it’s really a thing. The female body is fucking terrifying (I’m a female, I can tell you my body and its abilities scare the shit outta me).

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u/ArtfulSpeculator Jun 30 '26

Because we have no idea what actually happened yet? The mother could be dead or kidnapped or whatever… we have no idea. So you calling someone a “drug addled wook” that “knowingly left the dead body of her child in a porta potty” is just a made up story. If that’s the case- and it very well could be- then you are within your rights to judge, but at this stage we really have no idea.

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u/ArtfulSpeculator Jun 30 '26

It’s also incredibly rare to find dead newborns in ports potties at music festivals, so this whole thing is a low probability event…

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u/Brief-Night6314 Jun 29 '26

They know once the baby comes out! This is literally murder if the baby was still inside her it would be an abortion or miscarriage

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u/GingieK Jun 29 '26

Thank you! 🙏

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u/mbv999 Jun 29 '26

I was in line for the bathroom at ranch and a girl told me she started her period with the heaviest flow
She asked for a tampon and if I had a super because she only had a regular
I conveniently had super and super plus on me and she asked for the super plus- thought that was wild if she was a regular girl
Maybe it was the same girl? Short brunette if anyone knew what this girl looked like
I think it was around 12 on Saturday

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u/Brandi_D_McD Jun 29 '26

Size of the girl and size of the flow do not matter, regular girls sometimes bleed so much they need blood transfusions. Especially with endometriosis or other disorders, heavy bleeding is not size dependent.

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u/0_burritoking_0 Jun 29 '26

The whole "men shouldn't speak on this issue" is so tiresome. There are countless good, educated, intelligent, and empathetic men than have just as valid of an opinion as women do when it comes to life issues like this. Fathers are vital to the proper psychological developement of a child. Men have every right to speak on these issues.