Most of the time ignorance is bliss but in case of Dawa Lama it became a 10 year sentence. If she had known that she could easily have left the newborn at the hospital desk then she would never had to face this moment and the new born's life would be saved.

If it was in Nepal nothing would have happened so in time of duress she must have acted incoherently.

I do feel empathy for her but at the same time contributing to a death of her newborn was pretty heinous.