الثلاثاء، 29 سبتمبر 2015

Melbourne teenager who killed her newborn baby avoids jail sentence

Judge says girl suffered a rare mental disorder at the time of the birth and that ‘the loss of a child is a sentence in and of itself’

A Melbourne teenager who went into shock when she realised she was giving birth, then killed her baby and hid the body under a tree, has avoided jail.

The 19-year-old was sentenced to a one-year community corrections order in the Victorian supreme court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to infanticide.

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