Posted on 03/27/2017 7:43:18 PM PDT by Bon mots
OMAHA, Neb. - Antonia Lopez, a Nebraska teen who admitted to throwing her newborn baby out the window, won't be serving any jail time, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
On Friday, Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Christopher Kelly ordered Lopez to be placed on probation, live in a group home, take part in individual and family therapy, delete her Facebook account and perform 50 hours of community service, according to the World-Herald.
In September, Lopez, 16, reportedly gave birth to a baby girl in her apartment, then threw the baby out the window. She then texted her boyfriend, “It was a girl by the way,” and admitted her crime to her mother, the World-Herald reported. She told police that she was unaware that she was pregnant and thought she was just having her period.
An autopsy revealed that the infant, who later died, was still breathing at the time the blunt-force injuries were sustained. It also showed that Lopez had been pregnant for 25 to 28 weeks.
“She’s coping the best she can,” Lopez’s defense attorney Rebecca McClung said, adding that her client thought the child was a stillborn. “The mother is coping the best she can. The grandmother is coping the best she can.”
Lopez was initially charged as an adult with felony child abuse resulting in death, which could have meant 20 years in prison. However, in February, her case was transferred to juvenile court after her mental state and lack of criminal record were considered, the World-Herald reported.
She reportedly was ordered to live in a group home because judges were concerned that she didn’t understand the severity of her actions. The Facebook deletion order stemmed from her receiving numerous negative comments on her page following her arrest, the World-Herald reported.
What is abortion if not murdering a child in cold blood? If she went to planned parenthood & let them rip the child apart in a late term abortion the liberals would applaud her
““It was a girl by the way”. Doesn’t that prove malice aforethought? That is FIRST DEGREE MURDER.”
Seems so, yes.
So murder is not a crime any more.
If her name was Ann Smith she’d be doing 20 years. Such is the progressive “judicial” system.
“This represents something of a contrast to the Carolina guy sentenced to five years for taping a dog’s mouth shut.”
Yes.
Moral compass is inverted.
remember to have your pets spayed and neutered.
Some leftist judges in Nebraska, “Lawyers of the Corn”?
I can not understand this bestiality. All you need to do is go down to the local fire station or police department and give the child to them. There will be no questions asked and a loving family wants that child despreatly.
Why does this happen? I do not understand!
She thought she was just having her period???? Since when does menstruation have a sex? And...she tossed this "period result" out the window (not the garbage can, not down the toilet). She couldn't even get a conviction for littering??? This whole thing is suspicious and this young woman should NOT be coddled but made to recognize her role in the death of her own child.
Oddly enough if she were in an abortion clinic and scissors were plunged into the baby’s cranium but mere seconds before clearing the vaginal canal and the brain suctioned out it would be not an issue and perfectly legal. If the baby takes one breath it is murder. If before it is a clinical procedure most vile but legal.
One is legal the other is not. They are both morally murder.
Dead eyes and a dead soul.
Every day.......not just sometime. That poor baby is better off in Heaven than with that cold, uncaring mother and I use the term mother loosely.
I don't think she is looking for him.
I didn't know He was lost.
No. The boy, any boy, would not get a light sentence.
The boy, any boy, would not have just suffered childbirth and the physical and physiological trauma (and the shock her body was in) that certainly accompanied it in spades for that single first time teen mother.
Your heartless comment should cause you to do some real therapy or confession. Geez. Grow a heart.
What has our Country become?
This murderer needs to have a tie wrap cinched tight around her throat.
It’s like the guy who killed his parents and throws himself on the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan.
But she is coping the best she can. /s
“I didn’t know He was lost.””
or....
“I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.”
-Forrest Gump
I don’t think she looks sad. She looks like she just doesn’t care and would cut your throat if it would get her out of where she is right now. Dead eyes, no soul.
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