The mother who threw her baby into the sea in 2018 in Florida is sentenced to 14 years in prison

A southern mother Florida (USA) arrested and accused of murder for the death of a newborn baby, whose lifeless body was found in June 2018 in waters off the southeast coast of the state, was sentenced this Wednesday to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty in a resolved case with DNA testing.

arya singh30, the mother of the girl nicknamed “Baby June”, pleaded guilty to aggravated homicide of a minor, for which she was sentenced to 14 years in prison and another 10 years of probation, reported the local media outlet WPTV5, from West Palm Beach.

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Singh had been charged with second-degree murder in the case known as “Baby June,” but pleaded guilty Wednesday to a lesser charge of aggravated murder of a child, along with another charge of abuse of a dead human body, details the aforementioned. half.

After being held without bail in December 2022, Singh denied guilt, stating that she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth in a hotel room bathroom and that she also had no knowledge of whether the baby was alive or dead.

The County Sheriff Palm Beach, ric bradshawoffered details at a press conference last December about the resolution of this media case, resolved 4 years after the newborn baby was found floating in the cove of boyton beach (East of Florida) on June 1, 2018.

On that date, the off-duty firefighter chris lemieuxwho was browsing, found the body of the baby, which the doctors determined was no more than 2 weeks old.

The Forensic Biology Unit of the Sheriff’s Office Palm Beach County used a pilot program to help identify the newborn girl’s father and ultimately her mother, Singh.

A forensic doctor had determined that it was a homicide, given the conditions in which the body was found.

According to genetic DNA tests carried out, the baby was of 50% Asian and 50% African ancestry, a combination that occurs in places like barbados, Trinity either Jamaica.

Investigators believe the body was in the water for at least a day and may have floated from the broward county to its neighbor Palm Beach, further north.

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Investigators obtained a covert DNA sample from the woman they identified as a suspect from a piece of trash and began building the case.

They used search warrants for phone records and GPS data.

“Ms. Singh went to a hotel room alone and gave birth to a boy. As a result of her actions or inactions, the baby died. (She) never called 911, never sought medical treatment, never asked for help for herself, never left the baby at a fire station. She was the only person who could have saved that child’s life.”, declared in a statement the Office of the State’s Attorney in Palm Beach County, after the sentence was announced today.

Source: Elcomercio

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