Or at least any effect they had is negligible. She waited a month to report her own missing infant to the police, and the body was found in her car. Unless you're suggesting non-white parents do that so routinely it's not noteworthy (which would be a disservice to them and the media) her race and sex don't seem too significant. If I had to speculate (and I'd hate to miss a good bandwagon) I'd guess it's a case of the ancient but suddenly topical shaken baby phenomenon, and since we've started passing laws against that she hid the body rather than come clean after accidentally killing her own child. There's nothing race or gender specific about that; I've seen plenty of news stories about it involving people of both sexes and many races. What garnered national attention was the suspicion she deliberately murdered her own child in cold blood, but I think that would've been a nine days wonder whether the parent were a young white girl or a middle-aged Chinese hermaphrodite. It's more a symptom of our voyeuristic sadism than it is any bias.

I really need to stop thinking about threads after I reply to them BUT since I'm back I want to point out that playing the race/gender card when it doesn't apply doesn't aid the struggle against inequality (just ask Al Sharpton ). All it does is trivialize a serious problem and make legitimate accusations of prejudice less credible. It's not fighting back against The Man, it's an encouragement to ignore those who are.