A Nebraska 16-year-old, Antonia Lopez,
who admitted to throwing her newborn out a
second-floor window right after the baby
was born last year, has been sentenced to
probation. The teen who was supposed to
be tried as an adult for killing her child and
faced up to 20 years in jail, received
clemency from the judge after her lawyer,
claimed that the teen mum threw the
newborn baby away because she thought the
child was stillborn.
Apart from the probation, she would be sent
to a group home for causing the baby’s
death. The Omaha World-Herald reports
that, Juvenile Court Judge, Christopher Kelly
after accessing her mental state, told the
girl Friday, March 24th that she must
undergo therapy, delete her Facebook
account and perform only 50 hours of
community service.
The girl had pleaded guilty.
Police say Lopez, gave birth Sept. 30 at her
mother’s apartment in Omaha, Nebraska,
tossed the child out the window, then told
her mom.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine also
said that what the girl did wasn’t planned,
that “it was more of a panicked reaction.”
An autopsy determined the baby was in her
seventh month of development.
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