The thing is it suits people’s agenda to believe that she must have been desperate, because nobody can put themselves in the mindset of someone who could put a newborn in a bag, dump it in a park and walk away not knowing whether it would live or die.
It goes against most people’s human instincts to abandon a helpless newborn like that,so the only way we can rationalise it is to hope that they were in a bad place mentally in order to do that.
But they might not have been. We don’t know and we will likely never know.
If the mother was in a bad place mentally then hopefully she will get the help she needs, and separately the baby will hopefully be adopted by a loving family.
But we can only guess. And if you’re telling people they can’t judge until they know the facts then that goes both ways.
Just as people can’t know for certain that this was a deliberate act to harm an innocent child, so you can’t know that it was the cry of someone with serious mh issues.
Sympathy here should not automatically be a given without all the details.
M