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Baby boy Grossberg was not the only victim in the affair of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The two young parents were victims as well. We can speculate about what was going through their minds and how the two 18-year-olds let their newborn child die. However, this tragedy does not lessen the fact that society failed them in a major way. For some reason these two college freshmen from affluent backgrounds felt that they had no one to turn to--not their parents, their friends, professors or counselors. This tragedy should remind...
...week, Hurley asked for sympathy for his client. He said that when they met for the first time, Peterson "was full of twitches, he had an uncontrollable nervous laughter, his face was flushing, his voice was trembling. He's a very scared kid." Earlier Hurley said that Peterson had not expressed any sorrow over the death of the child. Hurley also defended the parents' harboring a fugitive and reported that Peterson's mother, hearing her son might face the death penalty, wanted him to flee the country. She thought of Iraq or Syria as his havens since they...
...could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby's skull, what possessed them to do so? To understand all is to forgive all, the old saying goes. Understanding Grossberg and Peterson seems a long...
About the time most prospective parents are obsessing over what color to paint the nursery, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. were acquiring a gray garbage bag with yellow drawstrings and a map of Newark, Delaware, to help them find a Comfort Inn off the highway, where birth and death could come and go in a moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear...
Certainly watching a father turn his son in because that son has killed his grandchild is heart wrenching. So was the sight of Barbara Peterson hiding her head in her son's soft fleece jacket, one she may have bought for him to wear on cool November days as co-captain of his soccer team, as she walked him into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally...