Here's "mom".....
Posted on 04/12/2007 5:31:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) Oakdale, Minn. -- A 17-year-old stabbed her newborn baby 135 times and disposed of her body in a garbage can outside her home in Oakdale, authorities alleged Thursday.
Nicole Marie Beecroft was charged Thursday with first-degree murder. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. She was being held in a juvenile detention facility.
"She kills the baby and now her life will be changed forever," Washington County Attorney Doug Johnson said.
The Tartan High School senior told police she was in a "panic state" after giving birth to the girl on the floor of the laundry room in her home around 3 a.m. Monday, according to the criminal complaint filed in Washington County District Court. She told police she had seen the baby's finger move, and admitted stabbing the child, the complaint said.
An autopsy determined the infant had been born alive, but suffered numerous puncture wounds in the chest area and bled to death from 135 sharp-force injuries, the complaint said.
"Oh, it's very unbelievable," Johnson said.
The prosecutor said Beecroft could have take advantage of Minnesota's safe-haven law, which allows mothers to leave unwanted newborns at hospitals without being punished.
Police said the baby's body was inside a trash bag that had been placed in the garbage can outside Beecroft's suburban home. Inside the trash bag, investigators also found a black-handled knife and some towels, according to the complaint.
Authorities were tipped off Tuesday when an anonymous caller told police that a cashier at a Cub Foods grocery store in St. Paul had given birth to a stillborn baby and threw it in the garbage at her home. The store manager confirmed Beecroft was an employee there, but said she had called in sick the past two days. Police went to her home. Her mother told officers her daughter had been sick in bed the past two days, but had gone to work that day, according to the complaint.
Beecroft's mother, Kari Beecroft, allowed the officers to look in her daughter's room, where they found a bag containing adult diapers. The mother told police her daughter had been using them because she had been experiencing a very heavy period, the complaint said. The officers found a blood-soaked sanitary napkin or diaper in the bathroom garbage can.
While police secured the scene Tuesday night, other officers found Nicole Beecroft at the store where she worked. They took her back to the Oakdale Police Department, where she acknowledged she had given birth the day before.
She said she had gone to the bathroom, but something didn't feel right, so she went to the laundry room and put a towel on the floor, and gave birth there. She initially claimed the girl was stillborn, and admitted discarding the child in the garbage can, the complaint said.
Police then got a search warrant, and recovered the body from the garbage can early Wednesday. Beecroft confessed when officers later confronted her at a hospital, the complaint said.
The girl's mother told police she didn't know her overweight daughter was pregnant.
The Beecroft family does not have a listed phone number.
Oakdale police officer Michelle Stark said she couldn't say if the baby's father has been identified. She said no one else was expected to be charged in the baby's death.
"Some early intervention possibly could have helped," Stark said.
words fail me
I am waiting for the day when they refer to crimes like this as a “post-partum abortion”, and declare is legal.
Didn’t she know she could have gotten the baby professionally mutilated?
Well, what about the BABY's life, you dumbass?
I’m betting she doesn’t serve more than 5 years for the crime. I wouldn’t be shocked if her punishment was less.
And no one in the house realized this at the time??
Just when you think you’ve heard it all and it can’t get any worse.......
I’m waiting for them to say, citing the fact that she stabbed the poor child 135 times, that she was temporarily insane and thus set a precedent for future mothers to murder their children immediately after birth and get away with it by claiming the same. And of course she is really the victim in all this because I’ll bet she is so ‘distraught’ over what she has done (though only noticeably so in front of a jury). Think about it- the Left is just in love with insanity as an excuse for all sorts of crimes, especially ‘temporary insanity.’ You got to love that- now, thanks to the ‘understanding’ of the Left, flying into a rage and killing someone isn’t murder, it’s just a horrible accident and the killer is really the victim.
“and the killer is really the victim.”
Nailed it.
Andrea Yates
What a monster. She is a danger to everyone.
Staggering. Looks for all the world like a very typical teen girl.
135 stab wounds? That’s not just a panicked teen. That is a broken, diseased mind. She’s a goner and there is no way to fix what’s wrong here.
How does the brain just “snap” at times?
One of her high school pals was quoted as saying, “she’s a lot of fun to be around”.
Damn those anti-choice fascists trying to turn her into a murderer! This uproar is clear evidence that reproductive rights still have a long way to go. The child bloody monster probably still had the umbilical cord its parasitic tendril attached to the mother's this innocent woman's body - this was simply a really late term abortion. She was so terrified that she did not seek medical help - these are the sorts of dangerous ultra-late term home abortions that we are faced with because infanticide choice is not fully legal.
Do I need a sarcasm tag???
Just sick.
Is there a FR keyword for previous articles or backgrounders?
And Liberals work to insure that Mom would never have known about the murder. It's the child's right ya know?
As far as I know, this is the only story on this incident. No background.
It’s really hard to believe that in today’s world there could be young people out there that have no clue as to what kind of help there is for them. If she didn’t know then surely a friend and certainly her Mother should have known. I don’t buy that her Mother didn’t know she was pregnant. Unless she was like a guy I worked with who didn’t know his own daughter was pregnant...what, they never hug, never look into her eyes, never notice a change in mood or eating habits? Give me a break. I would know if my daughter was pregnant before she did! I blame not only the girl but her Mother also. The ending should have been alot different. Sorry, this is just so devasting and didn’t have to happen.
IMO, she's a klintonian liar of the first order.
Leni
Who gets her first — Jerry Springer or Maury Povich?
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