Murder Trial Begins for Young Woman Who Says She Experienced a Stillbirth and Buried the Remains

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of Brooke Skylar Richardson, a young Ohio woman who in 2017, when she was 18, gave birth to a baby she says was stillborn, buried its remains in her parents’ backyard, and was subsequently charged wit

h murder. Prosecutors are arguing the infant was born alive, and that Richardson killed it and then buried the remains; her attorneys maintains that Richardson experienced a stillbirth andRichardson was about to start her senior year of high school when she became pregnant, but was seemingly unaware of the pregnancy until she saw a gynecologist to obtain birth control shortly before the end of the school year.

then buried the baby’s remains in a corner of her backyard. At one point, in a follow-up visit to her gynecologist, she told her doctor that she had given birth; her doctor then reported the baby’s death to the county coroner, which put it on the radar of the local police. Richardson’s attorneys have seized on this detail, pointing out during Tuesday’s jury selection that this mistake played a key role in prosecutors’ decision to indict her, and that police detectives had attempted to get her to confess by focusing on the burned remains.Holding her hands at the table in an interrogation room, “as if they were her friends,” [Richardson’s attorney Charles] Rittgers said, the police told her it would be better if she said she was trying to cremate the body.

 

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