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Katarina Jovanovic, a 28-year-old woman from Germany, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby girl. After Jovanovic gave birth at home in secret on September 12, she then dropped her newborn daughter out of the apartment window. Prosecutors alleged she committed the crime because she feared motherhood would ruin her career. Jovanovic was sentenced to just seven and a half years in prison. “The accused was not prepared to put her life plans, especially her professional advancement, on hold for a child,” argued public prosecutor Mareike Hafendoerfer. “That was her decision when the baby...

A woman is on trial for a second time, accused of murdering her newborn after hiding her pregnancy. In 2020, Andee Wright allegedly gave birth to a baby boy, struck the newborn on the head twice, and then left his body in a garbage can. She was found in medical distress by her boyfriend, who called 911. Initially, it was believed that Wright had suffered a stillbirth, but an investigation led to Wright being indicted by a grand jury on two counts of second-degree murder. Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn said it was possibly the “worst case” he...

Three Texas residents allegedly blew fentanyl smoke into the face of a 19-day-old baby to “pacify her cries,” police said. Police in Abilene stopped Robert Lee Mason Jr., Jennifer Trevino, Aracely Daniella Rocha and the newborn in a vehicle Jan. 25 in front of Frontier Inn & Suites, where they were staying, KVII reported. Deputies with the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office discovered fentanyl in the vehicle, including in the baby’s diaper bag, according to the outlet. When they searched the suspects’ hotel room, they were overcome by a cloud of smoke and had to don breathing masks to enter.

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ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) - A lawsuit filed Wednesday in an Atlanta-area court claims health professionals incorrectly delivered a baby resulting in a decapitation, then tried to cover it up. The negligence and fraud suit filed in Clayton County, Georgia, names several defendants, including Southern Regional Medical Center, a doctor, several nurses and the medical group at large, according to a statement from the law firm Edmond & Lindsay, LLP. According to the complaint, 20-year-old Jessica Ross was giving birth July 9 when the baby’s shoulders got stuck in the vaginal canal. A doctor allegedly performed a cesarean section...

On Friday, a jury found Alexis Avila, 19, of Hobbs guilty of abuse of a child relating in great bodily harm and attempted murder in the first degree. In January of 2022, Avila was caught on camera throwing her newborn, dubbed Baby Saul, in a dumpster outside the Rig Outfitters and Home Store in Hobbs. He was wrapped in a trash bag. Fortunately, three people dug through the dumpster to find him, and he was rushed to the hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Baby Saul is “happy and healthy today living with family,” according to reports. “Officers with the Hobbs Police...

Firefighters in Bowling Green, Kentucky, last week found the first baby placed into their Safe Haven Baby Box, which was just installed in December. WBKO reported that an infant was left in the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Bowling Green Fire Department (BGFD) station on Lovers Lane. The firefighters retrieved the child just a minute and a half after the box was used, WNKY noted. Monika Kelsey, the founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, held a press conference. Addressing the parents of the baby, she thanked the parents for looking out for the best interests of their child. Kentucky’s...

Her mother went into labour soon after the disaster and gave birth before she died, a relative said. Her father, four siblings and an aunt were also killed. Dramatic footage showed a man carrying the baby, covered in dust, after she was pulled from debris in Jindayris. A doctor at a hospital in nearby Afrin said she was now in a stable condition. The building in which her family lived was one of about 50 reportedly destroyed by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Jindayris, an opposition-held town in Idlib province that is close to the Turkish border. The baby's uncle, Khalil...

Conservative analyst and author Candace Owens claims staff at a Tennessee hospital attempted to hold her and her newborn daughter hostage after she gave birth earlier this summer - telling her she was not allowed to leave until they drew blood from the hours-old, perfectly healthy child. Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, the 32-year-old slammed staff at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, while recounting the '24 hours of torture' she says she suffered after giving birth to her second child Louise on July 13. The mother-of-two, who launches the new DailyWire+ podcast, Candace, on Monday, said the alleged mistreatment started after...

How far down does the slippery slope go? A newly proposed bill in the California State Legislature could expand the ghastly practice of abortion to include infanticide – the killing of a newborn child – for several weeks, months, or even years after a child is born.

Police arrested a woman they said was running while holding a newborn baby by the neck in South Charleston, West Virginia. 19-year-old Areonia Igo is charged with child abuse creating risk of injury. On Thursday (Nov. 4, 2021), police said they were dispatched to Colonial Park Drive in South Charleston in reference to a disturbance. “The only thing the 911 call taker from the dispatcher can hear is someone yelling about a dead baby,” Patrolman W.M. Tanzey wrote in a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. When police got on scene, they said they saw Igo being physically...

It happens when every baby is born in Michigan, blood sample is taken from the newborn. But a judge has ruled the way the state of Michigan does this, is most likely unconstitutional. Its a complicated legal ruling, but it may pave the way for changes in the newborn health screening process. “They don’t tell the parents, they don’t explain it to the parents, they just do it,” says Saginaw County attorney Phil Ellison. He is talking about the state of Michigan’s program where it takes a sample of blood from every newborn shortly after birth. The blood is taken...

Four newborn babies have died in the Australian city of Adelaide in the past four weeks after they could not be airlifted to Melbourne for special treatment due to strict coronavirus travel restrictions. The state of South Australia does not have a cardiac unit for children meaning seriously ill newborns in Adelaide with heart issues are normally taken to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital in the nearby state of Victoria – but this option has been ruled out due to the pandemic and a ban on inter-state travel, an inquiry heard on Tuesday

UNION COUNTY, N.C. — A 24-year-old woman was charged after an abandoned newborn baby was found alive inside of a plastic bag and hidden under leaves outside of a Marshville home Wednesday afternoon, the Union County Sheriff’s Office said. Casey Marie Thomas faces charges of attempted murder and felony child abuse after giving birth at home. Detectives said they believe Thomas put the infant in a plastic bag and hid him outside under leaves. Deputies said a concerned family member took Thomas to a local hospital after noticing she had lost a lot of blood. Medical professionals said it seemed...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV/WEHT) — Officials said an abandoned newborn baby was taken to the hospital Wednesday. According to Terre Haute Fire Chief Jeff Fisher, a passerby saw the baby on the porch of an abandoned home in the 2200-block of Cruft Street. The baby reportedly still had the umbilical cord attached. Chief Fisher said the baby was taken to a fire station before being transported to Terre Haute Regional Hospital.

A baby girl was found dead on a pile of toilet paper inside a restroom stall at a Pasadena park Thursday night, authorities said. Police got a call that there was a "lifeless infant" in a stall of the women’s restroom at Pasadena Memorial Park on 85 E. Holly Street around 10 p.m., the Pasadena Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find the dead newborn, who police said appeared to be full term. The child had no signs of visible trauma and the L.A. County coroner's office is working to determine whether she was stillborn or...

DRY RIDGE, Ky. — A Northern Kentucky woman faces several charges, accused of concealing the birth of her newborn child and hiding its remains in a plastic bag under a pile of laundry. Pamela Davis, 24, faces charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing the birth of an infant. According to a court summons, authorities were called to Davis' Grant County home on Vallandingham Drive on Feb. 17, where Davis had been bleeding for hours. Davis was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, where doctors told investigators she either recently gave birth or was raped....

This baby didn’t look too excited to be welcomed to the world! One newborn from Brazil made a hilariously angry facial expression in a photo that recently went viral on social media, with over 3,500 reactions, 1,000 comments and 1,600 shares as of Wednesday. In the snapshot, the baby appears to be scowling at the doctors who just delivered her by cesarean section. According to Insider, the newborn — named Isabela Pereira de Jesus — was born in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 13, and the moment was captured by professional photographer Rodrigo Kunstmann. Kunstmann shared the image on Facebook...

DNA helped police solve a 32-year-old cold case and track down the mother of a newborn boy who was found dead in a Connecticut parking lot in January 1988. The baby, whom police named David Paul, was found abandoned and frozen to death at the base of a tree in a wooded section of a parking lot in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford. A medical examiner found that the baby, who was a few days old, died from exposure to frigid temperatures, Meriden Police Chief Jeffry W. Cossette said at a news conference on Tuesday. His mother was...