Mother of dead baby found at UMass pleads innocent

Boston.com ^ | June 19, 2002 | Adam Gorlick

[Bubba_Leroy]

The University of Massachusetts student charged with murdering her newborn son sent e-mail messages and watched television after delivering the baby in a dormitory shower and putting him in a trash bag, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Jennifer L. Paluseo wrapped the baby in a towel and put him in the plastic bag that suffocated him, prosecutor Renee Steese said.

[Bubba_Leroy]

What a great defense! "I don't remember."

They need to keep her in prison at least until menopause.

[Senator Pardek]

He called the condition ''a phenomenon that happens to some young women for whom the pregnancy procedure goes terribly awry.''

Lol... that's a hell of a long name for a syndrome.

[alisasny]

Very funny!!!

[Senator Pardek]

He was just making that crap up on the spot - he probably has not yet paid off a M.D. "rent-a-witness".

[Xenalyte]

Wow, another "innocent" plea. I didn't know people could plead "innocent" - I always thought it was "guilty" or "not guilty."

[Carolina]

''She indicated she did not see a baby,'' Steese said. ''But she stated she could not remember if she cut the umbilical cord.''

Investigators found a pair of scissors in Paluseo's dorm room that had traces of blood on it, Steese said.

--------But Jennifer L. Paluseo wrapped the baby in a towel and put him in the plastic bag that suffocated him.

She didn't see the baby, but wrapped him in a towel and stuffed him in a bag.

She doesn't remember that she cut the umbilical cord but her scissors have blood on them.

What did she think she was doing? Clipping her nails?

[shaggy eel]

Paluseo's lawyer, Terry Nagel, said his client suffered from a condition that made her suppress the fact that she was pregnant. He called the condition ''a phenomenon that happens to some young women for whom the pregnancy procedure goes terribly awry.''

,,, hurry! Dial for your very own condition right now. Operators are standing by for your call (all major credit cards accepted).

[umgud]

Why all the hype? It's just another LATE term abortion.

[Alissa]

The baby boy, who weighed just over nine pounds

Authorities say the baby was full term, an assertion Nagel said he would challenge.

How many premies have you seen that weigh 9 lbs.? This is definitely going to be a bazaar defense!

[mombonn]

''She said she put it out of her mind,''

She has no mind, no soul, and no conscience.

[Tarheel]

The baby boy, who weighed just over nine pounds,

Nine pounds is a very large baby--all you gals out there who have had a baby tell me you wouldn't have remembered the pain of a delivery of a nine pounder. Mine were all eight pounds plus and I remember them all very vividly!

The Tarheel

[Okies love Dubya 2]

My daughter weighed 8 pounds, 7 oz. at birth and was over 22 inches long...and was 9 days early (but definitely not a preemie). They are saying my son (due in Sept.) will probably be bigger. Being 5'5" and 115 lbs. pre-pregnancy, that's not a walk in the park.

How in the world do you give birth to a baby that weighs over 9 lbs. and not remember it? Not to be graphic, but certain parts of me helped me to remember how big my daughter was!

[livius]

What's a "pregnancy procedure"?

Is that something like giving birth?

[okie01]

He called the condition ''a phenomenon that happens to some young women for whom the pregnancy procedure goes terribly awry.''

Her attorney really needs to work on a new name for this heretofore undiagnosed and undiscovered condition. Something simpler, say "Unconscious Late Term Abortion Syndrome" -- ULTAS for short.

[Carolina]

Or Pre-Pregnancy by Proxy Syndrome--or PPPS

[mystery-ak]

My son weighed 9 lbs 10 oz...I had 27 hours of labor and an emergency c-section.....I REMEMBER! as far as this story, words escape me.....sigh!

[Bahbah]

Whenever I hear of something like this I hope and pray that if any of my children ever finds themselves in a position like this, which is unlikely, they have the sense to come to me.

[Dante3]

It's lawyers like this one who give the profession an especially bad name.

Hope this killer doesn't get a slap on the wrist like the love birds Amy Grossberg and -- is it Brian Peterson? -- I forgot the creeps name. The brutal killing of their child sends chills up my spine. They got only a year or two.

[Alissa]

When the average weight for a full-term baby is between 7 lbs. for girls and 7.5 lbs. for boys, a defense that a 9+ lb. baby may not be full-term is beyond my comprehension as a Mom who has given birth!

[jwalsh07]

This is simply a symptom of the current state of affairs in America. A lot of people in her generation actually believe that doing something like this is an unalienable right.

Full Birth Abortion, pushing the envelope yet again.