“Baby Killer”

The media are freely using the term “baby killer” to describe the wretched Scott Peterson, and understandably so since he was convicted of killing a baby, one month short of birth. He was not accused of terminating a foetus. I do not know why the inconsistency of this has not yet dawned on the commentators. File this in the tangled web category, as in “O what a tangled web we weave…”