Cassidy Goodson, 14-Year-Old, Murders Her Newborn Baby: Cops  Posted: 10/01/2012 10:03 am Updated: 10/04/2012 11:25 am  A 14-year-old is accused of choking her newborn to death while the baby was still attached to her by the umbilical cord.  Cassidy Goodson of Lakeland, Fla., is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, according to the Ledger.  Goodson gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her home on Sept. 19, ABC News reports.  Police say the high school freshman ultimately used scissors to pry the baby out of her body and into the toilet. Lifting the baby out of the toilet, Goodson "placed her hands on the infant's neck and squeezed until he wasn't moving or breathing any longer," according to a statement released by Polk County Sheriff's Office on Friday.  Goodson allegedly killed the child because she "didn't know what to do with it," officials told WTSP.  Goodson had reportedly been wearing baggy clothes to hide from her family that she was pregnant. Two aunts suspected the teen was pregnant, but the girl's mother, Teresa Goodson, "was in complete denial," Sheriff Grady Judd told the Ledger.  As evidence that she wasn't pregnant, Cassidy Goodson had shown her mother two home pregnancy tests that turned up negative. However, the teen had conducted the tests completely alone.  Three days after the birth, the Sheriff's Office received a call reporting that Teresa Goodson, Cassidy Goodson's mother, had found a dead baby inside a shoe box in her home. Teresa Goodson said she found the body when she noticed an odor coming from her daughter's bedroom.  Judd believes that Cassidy Goodson's young age should be taken into account. "Let's remember she is a child," he said. "Where was her support system?"  Officials are considering charging adults who may have known about the pregnancy and kept it a secret. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to charge Cassidy Goodson as an adult.  Investigators are currently trying to determine the baby's father  Posted on July 31, 2007by Myra Turner  It always saddens me when I hear about a mother killing her child. It saddens me more when the child is a newborn. Last week here in Mobile an 18-year-old mother claimed that her 1-month-old daughter had been kidnapped by two woman who said they were from an adoption agency. The mother, who also has a 14-month-old daughter, said that after giving birth to the second child she realized she would not be able to take care of both kids so she decided to put the new baby up for adoption. She claimed she called an agency from a list given to her by a social worker. She then met with two women who took the baby. They told her she had ten days to change her mind and if so, she could have the baby back.  She then claimed that two days later, she changed her mind but when her mother contacted the agency, they told her they had no record of the adoption and neither women worked for the agency. Everyone in the community was heartbroken by this turn of events. A teary-eyed news conference was held and the search was on for the abductors. In the back of my mind, I started to wonder if this was a hoax. It wouldn’t be the first time but I was really hoping my gut feelings were wrong. But I had this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that the story was a lie.  On Sunday, it was revealed that the mother confessed to killing the baby. She put her body in the family’s trashcan and the poor baby is somewhere in the local landfill.  What I couldn’t understand is the young woman seemed to have a loving supportive family. I don’t know why she felt she had to kill the baby. Her mom was very supportive as was her grandmother, a few aunts and she seemed to have a boatload of cousins. But I guess you can’t understand what goes through the mind of another person.  What is also sad is the fact that we have Safe Haven laws. A mother can take her baby and drop him off in a safe place like a hospital without fear of prosecution. Yet, mothers continue to kill their babies or abandon them in unsafe places, many who eventually die. As parents, we need to let our daughters know that no matter what happens we will be there to support them. We don’t want them to think that they have no other choice. Because they do.  Police: Mother Admitted To Killing Twin Newborn Boys  HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – Police said a Hendersonville mother has admitted to killing her twin newborn boys by suffocating them after they were born at her home so her parents wouldn't hear them crying.  According to the court affidavit, 25-year-old Lindsey Lowe knew she was pregnant when she gave birth to the full term baby boys. She said she told no one about the pregnancy and never saw a doctor.  Lowe was a graduate from Western Kentucky University, a dental office employee and this past weekend, a bridesmaid in a sorority sister's wedding.  Her coworkers at a Nashville dentist office didn't even know she was pregnant.  "So many lives are ruined, it's a tragedy for everybody," said co-worker Susan Harris.  They said they are shocked and saddened by the news and the disturbing details revealed in a confession to police.  "We are all shocked and saddened and pray for her and her family," said another co-worker Michelle Stainback.  On Monday around 10:30 p.m. Lowe told police she gave birth to a baby in the toilet. When the baby started to cry, Lowe was apparently concerned her parents would hear.  Lowe admitted to police she held her hand over the baby's mouth to keep it from crying – and kept her hand in place for several minutes until the baby was dead.  Minutes later the second baby was born in the same way. When it was delivered, Lowe told police both babies were together in the toilet.  The affidavit said Lowe told police the second child was crying, but not as loud. She said she put her hand over the baby's mouth like the other and waited for the child to die. Lowe told police the second baby died quicker than the first.  Lowe then told police she placed both dead babies in a laundry basket and covered them with towels to keep them from being discovered.  Her father, Mark Lowe, found one of the babies in the laundry basket on Wednesday and called police. The second baby was later found.  Officials arrested the woman at her place of work. They said during an interview with police, Lindsey Lowe admitted to killing the babies by suffocating them.  Lowe was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. She was being held without bond and undergoing a medical evaluation.  "This brings us down to that question that everyone is asking, why? And I can't give you the answer for," said Lt. Scott Ryan with Hendersonville Police.  While that is still unclear, Lowe's had an outpouring of support on her Facebook page. Others used it as a podium for their anger at the death of two innocent babies.  Something that is difficult for most to understand.  "I have tried to put myself in that position over and over last night and you know don't know what they are thinking, what they are going through. But if there is anyone out there going through this you hope that they would reach out to someone," Harris said.  Investigators said the babies both appeared to be full term and weighed about 5 to 6 pounds each. Their bodies were taken to the state medical examiner's office in Nashville for autopsies.  Friends tell us Lowe has been engaged to her college boyfriend since 2008. Police were working to determine the identity of the father and conducting paternity tests.  Lowe has her first bond hearing Monday morning, and her first court hearing is scheduled for September 28.  Mother 'deliberately killed twin newborn baby daughters then left them in the trunk of her car'  Killer: Jackie Burkle allegedly killed her newborn twin daughters and abandoned them in the trunk of her car  An woman allegedly killed her newborn twin daughters and abandoned them in the trunk of her car, after giving birth at home.  Jackie Burkle, 22, of Huxley, Iowa, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after police found the infants' bodies in her car.  Incredibly the car was parked in front of her home, across the street from the police department in the town of about 2,800 people, about 20 miles north of Des Moines.  According to court records, police went to the duplex where Burkle lived after receiving a call to check on her.  Court records show Burkle was seen January 5 at work and 'appeared to be pregnant.' She was seen at work two days later and did not appear to be pregnant 'with a completely different appearance.'  Police have released few details but said Wednesday that Burkle lived with her parents.  Huxley Police Chief Mark Pote said Burkle is not married and that investigators were working to identity the children's father. Burkle has no other children, he said.  GALLATIN, Tenn. -- Lindsey Lowe told her family she loved them and mouthed the words "I'm OK" Tuesday after a jury convicted her of murdering her twin newborn sons.  Jurors deliberated a little more than two hours before convicting the 26-year-old Hendersonville, Tenn., woman of two counts each of felony first-degree murder, premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the 2011 deaths of her babies.  The murder convictions carry automatic life sentences. Lowe could face an additional 15 to 25 years on each aggravated child abuse conviction during a sentencing hearing April 26.  Sumner County Criminal Court Judge Dee David Gay said he would merge the first-degree felony and first-degree premeditated murder charges into one conviction for each infant. He will decide at the sentencing hearing whether the two life sentences will be served back to back or at the same time.  He also will sentence Lowe on the aggravated child abuse conviction and decide whether that sentence will be served consecutively or concurrently to the life sentences.  At the very least, Lowe won't be eligible for parole until she's 77 years old.  After hearing the guilty verdict on the first charge, family members and supporters began openly sobbing. Lowe, who twice became emotional enough to be scolded by the judge during the seven-day trial, showed little emotion.  After the verdicts in all six counts were read, Lowe's bond was revoked and she was taken into custody.  "I'm very proud of our jury for making the right decision," Sumner County District Attorney Ray Whitley said. "If we don't stand up for little infants, we're in bad shape as a society."  Whitley described the trial as "very contentious, very complicated," and said he thought Lowe's videotaped statement to police was a key piece of evidence for jurors.  "Certainly it was a key because she admitted what she had done," he said. "It was unsullied, and I believe the truth backed up what her statement was."  Before the trial, Lowe's attorneys fought unsuccessfully to suppress that statement, asserting she had not been properly read her Miranda rights and that her statement was coerced.  In the statement, Lowe admitted she held her hand over each infant's mouth to quiet their cries after giving birth to them in a toilet in the home she shared with her parents and sister.  In attorneys' closing arguments earlier on Tuesday, jurors heard two very different theories of the events.  Prosecutors argued Lowe cheated on her fiancé and knew about her pregnancy, which she kept a secret, from the beginning and killed the babies to conceal her affair.  Defense attorney John Pellegrin started his closing remarks by speaking to jurors as if he were Lowe.  "Hello, I'm Lindsey Lowe," he began, "and I'm smart, I'm educated, and I'm going to hide my pregnancy."  "You carry them nine months and your plan is to kill them? That's ridiculous."  Pellegrin said Lowe suffered from a dissociative disorder that put her in a state of denial about her pregnancy.  He said she also was in a state of delirium the night the babies died.  Lowe's family members declined to comment after the verdict, and Pellegrin could not be reached for an interview.  Philadelphia, PA – Police in Philadelphia have accused a woman of killing her twin babies, and attempting to kill her young daughter, after learning the children’s father was having an affair with one of her family members.  After returning home from work last Thursday, Ronald Smalls found that his wife, 41-year-old Stacey Smalls, had murdered their twins, tried to poison their 4-year-old daughter, and had slit her own wrists. Police believe Smalls, a former corrections officer who worked at a nursing home, strangled one twin and drowned the other.  She also tried to poison their 4-year-old by having her ingest a poisoned drink. The girl probably saved her own life after becoming suspicious and refusing to drink all of it. She was admitted to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and is expected to be released to her father.  Smalls was taken to the hospital after unsuccessfully trying to take her own life by slitting her wrists. She is currently in police custody on two counts of 1st-degree murder and is on a suicide watch.  The motive behind the killings was revealed in multiple notes Smalls left for the children’s father, one saying, “This is why I killed your kids.” The “why” turned out to be the “Hell hath no fury” variety. Stacey felt justified in killing her children after learning, on Mother’s Day, that her husband was having an affair with her daughter from a previous relationship. Damn, Ron.  The couple have had some recent marital issues according to Ron Smalls. This is evident by Stacey’s recent Facebook relationship changing to “Divorced,” accompanied by a new profile pic of a car spray-painted along its side with the words, “Hope she was worth it.”  Oakdale teen gets life for killing her newborn  A judge found an Oakdale teen guilty of premeditated murder in the grisly stabbing of her newborn and sentenced her to life in prison.  In the end, Judge Mary Hannon ruled Monday that the evidence was clear: Oakdale teenager Nicole Beecroft planned the death of her newborn daughter, stabbed her more than 100 times and threw the baby's body into a trash can outside her house.  The judge found Beecroft guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced her to life in prison without parole.  Beecroft, dressed in a brown suit with her hair stretched into braided pigtails, wept when Hannon pronounced the verdict in Washington County District Court. Bee-croft declined to make a statement before Hannon sentenced her.  "I'm really sad," County Attorney Doug Johnson said outside the courtroom afterward. "It's a waste of two lives."  The trial by judge in a first-degree murder case in adult court -- Bee-croft waived her right to a jury trial -- is rare, Johnson said. He thinks it's the first such trial in the 22 years that he's worked for Washington County.  The attorneys in his office who prosecuted the case, Heather Pipenhagen and John Fristik, said Beecroft had considered leaving the baby at a hospital before she gave birth at her home in the early morning hours on April 10, 2007, but instead decided to kill her. Minnesota law permits such abandonment within 72 hours of birth to ensure a baby's welfare.  Beecroft stabbed the baby 135 times in the neck, chest and abdomen. Several of the wounds penetrated the baby's vital organs, Hannon said before she sentenced Beecroft.  "Defendant Beecroft denied her pregnancy and made no plans for the child's future," Hannon said from the bench. She also said Beecroft made false statements to investigators.  Minutes after Hannon concluded the sentencing hearing, angry words flew outside the courtroom when some of Beecroft's relatives took issue with a young man who claimed to be the baby's father.  A court advocate quickly led the young man and his mother away. Minutes earlier, they had submitted victim impact statements for the court record but didn't want them read aloud. The courtroom remained silent while the judge studied the statements, one of which was four pages long, she said.  Beecroft was 17 and a senior at Tartan High School in Oakdale when the birth occurred. The overweight girl hid her pregnancy and even her mother didn't know, according to court documents.  The Ramsey County medical examiner's office ruled that the baby, whom the judge called "Female Beecroft," was born alive and bled to death from the stab wounds. Beecroft told police she panicked and stabbed the baby girl after seeing her move a finger.  Public defender Christine Funk had argued in previous hearings that some neonaticide research on teenage girls who hide their pregnancy and deliver alone, as Beecroft did, indicated that they are not capable of premeditated killing.  But prosecutor Pipenhagen told Hannon that a New York judge rejected the neonaticide syndrome theory -- that a teenage mother can have a psychotic breakdown at childbirth -- in the only case Pipenhagen could find in which the theory was raised.  Funk and her co-counsel, Luke Stellphlug, also challenged the life sentence -- mandatory under Minnesota law for first-degree murder -- as unconstitutional, saying it represented cruel and unusual punishment. But Hannon denied that motion Monday, saying she wasn't able to make that determination.  As he was leaving the courthouse, Stellphlug said that a first-degree murder conviction gets an automatic appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court and that Beecroft received "a disproportionate sentence." Beecroft's situation, he said, is similar to that of many other pregnant teenagers.  Pipenhagen and Fristik said that they were satisfied with the verdict and that the evidence showed that Beecroft was deliberate in her determination to kill her baby.  "There are no winners in this case. There's nothing in this case to be happy about," Pipenhagen said.  Beecroft was taken to the women's prison in Shakopee, where she'll be held for the rest of her life.  Still think this never happens in America? Teens/women have children in secret and kill the baby(ies) and hideth body like trash.
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