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Young Ohio mother acquitted of killing newborn
WOWK TV 13 ^ | SEPT. 12, 2019 | JANICE HISLE Associated Press

Posted on 09/12/2019 3:02:07 PM PDT by Morgana

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard was acquitted by jurors Thursday.

The Warren County jury deliberated for four hours before acquitting 20-year-old Brooke Skylar Richardson of aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment charges.

She was found guilty of corpse abuse.

Richardson began crying as verdicts were being read.

Warren County Judge Donald Oda II scheduled sentencing for 11 a.m. Friday on the abuse of a corpse charge. It carries a potential sentence of up to one year in prison, but as a first-time offender, she could get probation.

Prosecutors contended that the high school cheerleader wanted to keep her “perfect life.” They said she hid her unwanted pregnancy and buried her baby in her family’s backyard in May 2017, within days of her senior prom.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: baby; brookerichardson; cheerleader; newborn; ohio
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To: Amberdawn

Only if she can destroy the evidence such that even if it is later discovered, it will be too decomposed to make the case that the mother killed the baby.


21 posted on 09/12/2019 3:44:30 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Since there is no justice in this world, we must hope for it in the next.

Tempered with mercy.


22 posted on 09/12/2019 3:45:39 PM PDT by karnage
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Yes. It’s still disgusting that she got NO time. She could have left the baby at a hospital or firehouse.


23 posted on 09/12/2019 3:46:28 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Idiot. If she had merely paid some assassin a couple of hundred down at her local PP she would have gotten off with no charges, mo public embarrassment, no nothing. What are we teaching our young people today?


24 posted on 09/12/2019 3:46:41 PM PDT by Robwin (very)
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To: Amberdawn

She did the work that Planned Parenthood wouold have been happy to do.


25 posted on 09/12/2019 3:48:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

A forensic pathologist testified for the prosecution that she concluded the baby died from “homicidal violence.”

Prosecutors said Richardson had searched on the internet for “how to get rid of a baby.”


26 posted on 09/12/2019 3:51:21 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Morgana

It’s just a post-natal abortion.


27 posted on 09/12/2019 4:08:13 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Morgana
Teens do crazy things.She did admit it to her Doctor a few months later.He was the one who called the police.You can't hide childbirth.I haven't followed this case.Just would stuff the defense’s name in my pocketbook.Prosecutors did not prove the case.
28 posted on 09/12/2019 4:10:34 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Amberdawn

Post-birth abortion.


29 posted on 09/12/2019 4:19:01 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: Morgana
"Clear case of “Cool kids/Cheerleader” privilege?” I have felt this in the air all along."

Anything vaguely related to football in Ohio is likely to get a pass or at least lenient treatment in the courts. For example the Stubenville rape case. Even more surprising is this is in Warren County, Ohio which tends to be conservative.

30 posted on 09/12/2019 4:26:06 PM PDT by buckalfa (The best two years of my life were spent in the third grade.)
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To: Morgana

This acquittal is more evidence that this country is decayed and dying.


31 posted on 09/12/2019 4:44:59 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Captain Rhino

Bingo. Some people get away with murder.


32 posted on 09/12/2019 4:47:46 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: txnativegop
the depravity of a killer receiving probation to a max of 1 year for killing an infant is disgusting. I truly have no words to describe what I think about this situation.

I truly have no words to describe what I think about this situation.

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I nearly totally agree. But post # 31 adds a little to my feelings.

33 posted on 09/12/2019 4:48:31 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

I agree with you completely.


34 posted on 09/12/2019 4:57:38 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Morgana

Proverbs 24:24-25 sums this up pretty accurately for me.


35 posted on 09/12/2019 5:06:58 PM PDT by JayElBee (Time to rethink the Great Society)
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To: Morgana

This is absolutely disgusting. Hopefully she is amassing a huge amount of bad karma to take care of this injustice.


36 posted on 09/12/2019 5:12:52 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Morgana

37 posted on 09/12/2019 5:35:42 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: lee martell

“That still shouldn’t excuse disposing of the body as she did.”

Well, the jury did not excuse her, they convicted her on that charge.


38 posted on 09/12/2019 6:39:12 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Morgana

??Corpse abuse?? What kind of legal system has a law for ‘corpse abuse’?

Is this satire?


39 posted on 09/12/2019 6:47:06 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Whenifhow

Even though she was acquitted, doesn’t she still have to live with herself for the rest of her life for her actions? Pretty heinous attitude towards life and doesn’t seem to have any remorse. This is proof positive that in this world people can fall into selfish depravity and ultimately she will judge herself. She can now roam around free but is she really free? I don’t feel any sympathy toward her. Buried the baby to hide the evidence like it was garbage in the way of her good times. Makes me think of Virginia Governor Black Face Democrat Ralph’s interview about the mother having the discussion with her doctor about the fate of the baby. Cold hearted, unfeeling like living dead zombies who have no value for life. It’s all about them. No one should get in the way of their good times, “it’s my body, my choice” even after birth. That’s what Hitler, Stalin and Mao believed. And the world is a witness to how they valued human life. Who will judge them for killing the innocent? Judgement will come, not in this life but in the life which is to come.


40 posted on 09/12/2019 10:27:58 PM PDT by Chuck N
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