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Oracle of DelphiMother Convicted of Killing Her Newborn
June 21st 2006 04:39
Remember that rumour about the teenage skank who didn't know she was pregnant, had her baby in a Kmart change room, then dumped the child in the bin? Well, if you take out the teenage skank part and the Kmart part and the bin part, it's no rumour at all. It's the real life story of Amy Shorter who was recently convicted of murdering her own newborn baby. How did this mother of three end up committing such a heinous crime? It seems beyond comprehension.
Ms Shorter was shopping at Wal-Mart one day and began to feel severe abdominal aches. The 27 year old went into a handicapped toilet cubicle and discovered the cause of her pain as she gave birth to a baby girl. It was argued in court that she had no prior knowledge of her pregnancy and the surprise birth caused her to panic to such an extent that she left the newborn in the bathroom and fled the scene.
Wal-Mart employees found the baby and a nurse who was shopping at the outlet at the time attempted to perform CPR. She was taken to hospital but died 5 days later.
Shorter was charged with felony murder as well as malice murder. However, the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision as to the malice charge and she was only charged with felony murder. Understandable I suppose. How could a mother ever purposefully leave her child in a bathroom to die? Surely she didn't intend on actually killing the baby, right? But then again, how can she have not known that she was pregnant?
Amy Shorter will spend the rest of her life in jail and will only be eligible for parole in the year 2019.
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Ms Shorter was shopping at Wal-Mart one day and began to feel severe abdominal aches. The 27 year old went into a handicapped toilet cubicle and discovered the cause of her pain as she gave birth to a baby girl. It was argued in court that she had no prior knowledge of her pregnancy and the surprise birth caused her to panic to such an extent that she left the newborn in the bathroom and fled the scene.
Wal-Mart employees found the baby and a nurse who was shopping at the outlet at the time attempted to perform CPR. She was taken to hospital but died 5 days later.
Shorter was charged with felony murder as well as malice murder. However, the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision as to the malice charge and she was only charged with felony murder. Understandable I suppose. How could a mother ever purposefully leave her child in a bathroom to die? Surely she didn't intend on actually killing the baby, right? But then again, how can she have not known that she was pregnant?
Amy Shorter will spend the rest of her life in jail and will only be eligible for parole in the year 2019.
The image used in this post is from Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5
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Comment by Trina
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I'm amazed at people who don't realise they're pregnant untill they give birth. I've heard some people had really strong abdominal muscles which explains why there weren't any realy physical signs, but wouldn't you notice if you missed out on 8 months or so worth of menstruation? And other ppl would just think they're getting fat...
Comment by Legally Brunette
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Plus she already had three children so it's not like she didn't know what it was like to be pregnant!
And if it was just a spur of the moment, panic-related thing, she must feel so awful now. Imagine leaving your own baby to die at Wal-Mart...
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Bunbury, in your case, maybe that was the girl's first, so she had no idea what to suspect?
Comment by Bunbury
But it's a good point about the woman already having had 3 children, so it's strange how she could have had this happen.....
Comment by Legally Brunette
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On another note, I do remember hearing about the prom story ! but i thought that was just a rumour too.
i can't believe this stuff actualy happens...
Comment by Bunbury
They had this video footage of her entering the prom, and she didn't look pregnant at all! She was all slim in her dress and everything!
Then there was this story in Girlfriend mag about all these other cases, where they just had the baby in the toilet cos they thought it was a stomach bug, and got freaked out and the baby drowned.
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