Colorado Mom Who Smothered Newborn Baby Girl Before Tossing Her Over a Fence Is Convicted of Murder

Photo: Douglas County Sheriff’s Office

“Who are we as people that someone among us has such disregard for the most innocent of lives — a life they helped created? Disgusting,” Brauchler added.

She then covered the infant’s mouth, carried the child downstairs to the back deck and threw her into the backyard of a neighbor, according to the DA’s office.

The neighbor discovered the child that night at 9:48 p.m.

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“That little girl was on that deck for 948 minutes,” Deputy District Attorney Valerie Brewster told the jury, according to the DA’s office. “This defendant went about her day, knowing her unnamed daughter was there, helpless. She thought and made that choice.”

Konrad was convicted of first-degree murder after deliberation, tampering with physical evidence, and the position-of-trust murder charge, according to the DA’s office.

Wasinger-Konrad’s sentencing is set for Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. The mandatory sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison without the possibility of parole.

source: people.com