There was no hiding the fact that they had been drinking. While Ann and Marco were initially fearful of what people would think about them leaving their infant home alone, soon the dread of what might have hap pened to her took control. Detective Rasbach arrived with a full complement of policemen a late-night search of the neighborhood was undertaken while Detective Rasbach questioned the parents. Even so, they searched the house before calling the police. Disbelief: a 3-month baby cannot be out of her crib. The crib was empty! She screamed and Marco came running. The first thing Ann did was to rush up to Cora’s room to check on her. By now, all concerned had drunk quite a lot. Marco didn’t seem quite so sure and left Cynthia Stillwell’s attention only reluctantly to go home with his wife. Using a baby monitor, they kept regular tabs on the sleeping Cora and took turns checking on her each half hour. On this night, though, Ann had given in and agreed with her husband, Marco, to spend the evening next door to celebrate Graham Stillwell’s birthday. Since then, Ann Conti had devoted most of her time to the baby. They had gotten together regularly with the Stillwells before Cora had been born. The Contis lived in a condo that abutted the Stillwells’.
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In the absence of such a power, our natural passions carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like. of getting themselves out of the miserable condition of war which (as I have shown) necessarily flows from the natural passions of men when there is no visible power to keep them in awe and tie them by fear of punishment to keep their covenants and to obey the laws of nature set down in my chapters 14 and 15.įor the laws of nature-enjoining justice, fairness, modesty, mercy, and (in short) treating others as we want them to treat us-are in themselves contrary to our natural passions, unless some power frightens us into observing them. Men naturally love liberty, and dominion over others so what is the final cause or end or design they have in mind when they introduce the restraint upon themselves under which we see them live in commonwealths? 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