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Uni student jailed for leaving newborn baby to die in rubbish bin

An American woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after leaving her newborn baby to die in a rubbish bin outside her sorority house.
Uni student jailed for leaving newborn baby to die in rubbish bin

Emile Weaver, 21, was found guilty in May of aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and two counts of tampering with evidence, Zanesville Times Recorder reports.

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Weaver is accused of placing her newborn baby in a small rubbish bin shortly after giving birth in the bathroom of her Delta Gamma Theta sorority house.

She then wrapped the baby, named Addison, in a bag before leaving her outside her sorority house on campus, with a preliminary autopsy reporting that the baby died of asphyxiation.

Hours before Weaver gave birth, she allegedly sent text messaged to the boy she though was the father to tell him the baby was “taken care of.”

“That was probably the most truthful statement you made that day,” Muskingum County Common Pleas Judge Mark Fleegle said.

“It was an inconvenience, and you took care of it.”

Weaver’s sorority sisters testified that she denied rumours of her pregnancy despite her weight gain, wearing baggier clothing, and her action of holding a pillow or stuffed animal in front of her stomach, the Times Recorder reported.

They also added that during her pregnancy, Weaver smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and played dodge ball, even falling on her stomach after a tournament.

“You tried over and over to take that baby’s life,” the judge told Weaver in court.

The baby’s corpse was discovered on April 22, 2015, after several sorority members noticed blood spots in the bathroom.

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