He was justifiably afraid. He watches TV like we do.

A *possible* explanation for a "fetoid" (for lack of a better term for an unborn baby) would be decomposition of the mother. I had not heard that the baby appeared to have been born.

The main point here is - like everything else we once held dear, the idea of innocence as an abstract thing, that lasts until proof by compelling evidence before a jury of *peers* changes it to guilt, has fallen before the onslaught of the Corporate Collective cohorts.