Woman On Trial For Newborn Death Claims Amnesia

A woman on trial for the death of her newborn child in 2007 will not be able to assist in her own defense, says her lawyer, because she suffers from amnesia. Her amnesia allegedly caused her to have no recollection of being pregnant or giving birth, nor of how her newborn child came to be wrapped in plastic and dead of asphyxiation on her back porch. Her lawyer told the Daily News, "There are no witnesses to what happened, except for her ...there is no indication that the baby was bruised, no strangulation marks, and the baby could have been stillborn."

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By Jaya Saxena in News on September 14, 2010 4:41 PM

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John L

Great defensive move.

I hope it doesn't work though.

Or ever criminal will develop amnesia.

John L

oops, meant to say "every"

ides_of_march

If she had only killed the baby while it was still in her, the act would have been constitutionally protected.

DanielJ

WTF? Is this actually still a viable defense?

CaptainMXC

It's kinda funny because seeing that she was the "only witness" to the crime, you would think she could of just pleaded the fifth. But I guess that would have gotten her no sympathy with the jurors, so she'd rather say she is "crazy". But it proves to you that all that fancy smancy CSI shit is not as air tight as they'd like you to believe. The defense lawyer implied that the child might have been born stillborn even though a million Law and Orders have said a coroner can tell whether the child took a breath outside of the womb. I wonder what the truth is...maybe I need to study criminal justice just to find out.