Posted on 08/09/2022 5:00:53 AM PDT by Morgana
A Nebraska woman and her 17-year-old daughter are facing felony charges after the mother allegedly helped her daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus.
Celeste Burgess was reportedly nearly six months pregnant when her mother, Jessica Burgess, helped her carry out an abortion.
The pair claimed Celeste, then 17, accidentally had a stillbirth while in the shower before they placed the fetus in a box, burned it and buried it on a property located north of Norfolk.
Jessica, 41, was hit with five felonies pertaining to the incident. Celeste, who is being tried as an adult, was charged with three. Both women have pleaded not guilty.
Tanner Barnhill, 22, was charged with helping the pair dispose of the fetus. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor and will be sentenced later this month.
Norfolk police launched an investigation into the Burgess family in April after receiving a tip that Celeste had miscarried and buried the body.
Detectives obtained a copy of the teen's medical records and determined she was 23 weeks pregnant at the time of the alleged incident, with an expected due date of July 3.
When officials interviewed Celeste, she claimed she had miscarried on April 22 sometime after midnight, according to an affidavit obtained by KMTV.
She told police she told her mother what happened, placed the fetus in a bag and then inside a box in the back of a cargo van.
Jessica and Celeste drove to a property north of Norfolk, allegedly belonging to Barnhill's parents, and buried the body. The affidavit does not specify when the burial happened, but notes Barnhill helped with the task.
On April 29, Barnhill showed investigators where the fetus was buried and told authorities that Jessica and Celeste had tried to burn it before burying it.
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Doesn’t everyone who wants to have a baby and loses it burn and bury it? /s
A horror.
Rot in Prison Bish.
Why didn’t they arrange a legal abortion? I think the article said abortion up to 20 weeks is legal in Nebraska.
Get ready to see this case everywhere in the national news and the trial will be a media circus.. if it happens.
Meanwhile... thousands of child sexual abuse and traffic cases will not make a peep in the national media....
“Accidentally had a stillbirth”
Today in retarded journalism.
A stillbirth caused by taking the abortion pill. “Clever reporting” by DM.
They could have traveled to Colorado but now the left is going to cry bloody murder, no pun intended.
I love your tagline.
This particular stillbirth was caused by taking an abortion pill.
This one and Sharpton’s Bible-choice are disturbing, but I can’t get that abortion altar out of my head.
“accidentally had a stillbirth” is not an abortion.
“accidentally had a stillbirth” is not an abortion.
Pure evil.
why’d she wait until 6 months along?
They facebook messaged about it.
There’s something fishy about this! If you miscarriage, you would call 911, unless you are trying to keep a secret that Mr. Barnhill is the dad.
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