But I don't want you to think Skinner got off scot-free. Oh, no. Not by a long shot. She was convicted of filing a false police report. The judge ordered her to pay for the cost of the police investigation – a $750 fine.
Had Skinner shot her baby three or four hours later when she had been delivered, she would no doubt be facing life imprisonment. But because she shot her daughter while she was still within her – even on the scheduled day of her birth – she doesn't serve a day in jail.
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The nation's murder statistics would take quite a turn for the worse if we started counting dead babies.