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Teenager mom gets three years for kill
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-03-03 10:15 The Jiading District People's Court in Shanghai
Thursday sentenced a teenage mother to three years in jail for killing her baby
just hours after it was born.
The court heard the 18-year-old mother, who was only identified by the
surname Mei, threw her newborn from a sixth floor balcony, possibly to hide her
pregnancy, last October 29.
The unmarried teenager said she was raped in her hometown in Hubei Province,
and didn't want anyone to find out about the attack. That became difficult once
she found out she was pregnant.
Mei and her mother moved to the city last April to find work. Her mother
never realized Mei was pregnant, although she did suggest the girl exercise more
as she was putting on weight. Mei kept her pregnancy secret until the day she
delivered the baby.
Prosecutors said Mei locked herself inside the bathroom for a long time and
told her mother she was having her period and needed privacy on the morning of
October 29.
Prosecutors allege she gave birth to the baby in the bathroom and tossed the
infant out the window so no one would find out she had been
pregnant.
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