Summary Of City Crimes

The blood of an innocent child stains a woman’s hands for life. The killing of a child is a heinous crime. Children are looked upon as a gift from God and the future generation. Does a child’s race change his or her value? In the 1800’s racism was thriving. In the present day people frown upon killing a child regardless of the color, Blacks were not looked at as equals in the society. They often referred to a mixed child as a mullato baby. During that time human value was based more on the color of someone’s skin rather than them being a human themselves. In the story City Crimes New York Julia Fairfield killed her child with her bare hand and threw him in the river based on his race, with today’s regulations of the law she would have never
Julia Fairfield killed an innocent child. The newspaper confirmed that the baby had been “strangled, and its body thrown into the water” (Thompson 43). Miss Julia is of high society and had no regard to her own child. Fairfield chose to have relations with a black man not taking into account the consequences of her actions. Fairfield knew that if anyone found out she slept with a black man that she would never get married and no man would ever touch her. She disposed of the evidence of her crimes by discarding the child’s lifeless body into the water. Then she became the wife of a Mr. Frank Sydney. Miss. Fairfield knew that if her husband knew she laid with a Negro man that he would look at her in a different light. A woman of this time is supposed to come to her nuptial bed pure and untouched. Not only was Miss. Fairfield not pure, she had a child with someone else and slew him. On Miss Fairfield’s hands lay the gore of an innocent
The United States has child protective services. These are services put in place regardless of the child’s age or race (CPS manual). When child protective services get involved they look out for the best interest of the child. They asses the environments and secure law enforcement in case it is not up to code (CPS manual). If Miss Fairfield lived in present day times she would not have gotten away with the strangulation of her infant child. The services are put in place to protect the child at any