SHENANGO TOWNSHIP – A Lawrence County woman answerable with bent assassination in the afterlife of her babyish reportedly told badge she didn’t apperceive she was pregnant.
But the badge adduce in a bent complaint that aloft confined a chase accreditation at her home, they begin break that 23-year-old Brittany Nicole Robinson knew she was abundant afore giving birth.
She is in the Lawrence County bastille afterwards bond.
State badge arrested Robinson, 23, of 3202 Ellwood Road afterwards her ancestor allegedly begin the babyish asleep and captivated in a atramentous T-shirt in a crawlspace beneath the family’s advanced porch, according to the complaint.
The complaint that Robinson, in an annual with police, told them that she started accepting advancing belly pains on Friday. She said she went to assignment and completed her shift, again went home and took a bath.
Robinson told badge she accomplished she was giving bearing in the bathtub. She delivered a son and got out of the bathtub and captivated the baby, but said she didn’t apprehension the babyish accepting a babyish or pulse,according to the badge account.
She said she done off the babyish and put him on the bath attic afterwards wrapping him in a atramentous T-shirt that she had begin in the bathroom, she told police. She said she put the babyish in a basal chiffonier drawer that is amid in an amid balustrade on the aback of the house. She said she went out to analysis on the babyish the abutting day and he was not breathing, the complaint relates.
Robinson told badge that afterwards aggravating to sleep, she went aback and removed the babyish from the chiffonier drawer and placed him in the crawlspace on the south ancillary of the house, again went to work, the address states.
According to the complaint, the crawlspace has a disposable aperture and Robinson’s ancestor initially begin the child. In an annual with troopers, he told them was putting up Christmas decorations and was rerouting an addendum bond beneath the advanced balustrade and he removed the crawlspace aperture at the aback of the abode and saw a atramentous debris bag and a atramentous T-shirt beneath it. As he removed the shirt, he noticed it was added than expected, and he unwrapped it to acquisition the above babyish boy, and he alleged 911, the address states.
Police said that Robinson told badge that no one in the abode knew she was abundant and her ancestors was not acquainted she had accustomed birth. She told the troopers that she never notified emergency cadre because she was afraid, the complaint states.
A address on the items that investigating troopers bedeviled during the chase accreditation was bare Monday morning.
An dissection performed backward Sunday at the Heritage Valley Health System hospital in Beaver County bent that the babyish had been built-in afterwards a full-term abundance and was begin to counterbalance 7 pounds and abstinent about 19 inches long, the badge reported.
Deputy Coroner Rich “R.J.” Johnson, who went to the scene, said the dissection showed no assurance of agony to the baby. He said added analysis after-effects are pending.
In accession to a allegation of bent homicide, Robinson faces one calculation anniversary of concealing the afterlife of a child, corruption of a body and analytical with or architecture concrete evidence.
Her basic audition is set for 9:30 a.m. Dec. 5 at Lawrence County Central Court in New Castle.
CNHI News Service
