Lack of evidence. If I was a juror, this is exactly what I would have done — there is evidence of lying to police, but there isn’t adequate evidence that she murdered the child vs. the child dying by any other means. There’s something fishy going on, but with the evidence I wouldn’t be able to distinguish between murder vs. an accident and a cover-up. Maybe that makes me a cold-hearted SOB, but following the law that’s what I would have rendered.
Maybe she did it. Maybe she didn’t, and her father put the body under the tree that she couldn’t have moved by herself. If the evidence doesn’t let me distinguish between the two, I’d be forced to acquit.
Shouldn’t there have been some charge for concealing and disposing of the body?
I guess every mobster and hit man knows the truth, no body no crime, including skeletons. I would have convicted her.