Hasta La Creative!

Late last month a Pennsylvania woman made national news when, as the AP reported on Aug. 26, she allegedly “gave birth to a son in the bathroom of a sports bar, then abandoned him to die in the restaurant’s toilet.”

The team at “Nancy Grace” — as Grace’s HLN current-affairs cable show is called — saw in this story not just a horrific tragedy, but a social-media opportunity. Last night at 7:55 p.m. ET, to promote a segment on the story, the official @NancyGraceHLN Twitter account tweeted,

That hashtag prompted immediate negative reaction from the Twittersphere, including “I think that hash is very insensitive” and “Sensationalism above all else” and “omg I can’t believe the hashtag!That is awful & insensitive !!!”

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