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A 20-year-old female charged pinch sidesplitting her newborn girl had images of Casey Anthony on her phone, suggesting “searches connected nan decease of a kid and consequent investigation”, nan Flagler county, Florida, sheriff’s agency alleged this week.
Anne Mae Demegillo, who was arrested connected 6 March, was indicted connected Monday connected charges of first-degree premeditated murder, aggravated kid abuse, and nonaccomplishment to study decease of a personification pinch intent to conceal nan decease aliases change nan grounds aliases circumstances surrounding specified death, successful nan decease of her infant.
Demegillo’s lawyer revenge paperwork connected 11 March entering a written plea of not blameworthy connected her behalf.
Asked for comment. Demegillo’s lawyer, Michael Politis, said: “I judge that she suffers from terrible postpartum psychosis and/or depression, and I deliberation that explains her behaviour that is alleged to person occurred.”
Politis said that his customer had nary anterior criminal behaviour aliases aberrant behavior. “Absent nan state’s find telling maine much details, it’s difficult if not intolerable for maine to speak beyond that,” he said.
Politis said Demegillo will participate a not blameworthy plea to nan indictment astatine her upcoming arraignment.
Authorities went to her residence past period aft a caller told emergency dispatchers that they had received messages from Demegillo stating “that she had secretly been pregnant and had unexpectedly fixed commencement astatine home”, officials claimed. “The connection indicated that Demegillo’s babe was calved live and crying, but Demegillo had done thing to nan infant.”
After deputies arrived to her home, Demegillo allegedly said she wasn’t judge astir nan gestation but started emotion “severe” abdominal symptom early connected 5 March. Demegillo allegedly said that she delivered nan babe successful her toilet.
“Demegillo claimed she thought nan babe was deceased, truthful she hid nan babe successful a duffle container successful her closet and went astir her normal regular routine,” nan sheriff’s agency said. “When Demegillo returned location from a theatre capacity successful New Smyrna Beach, she decided to hide nan deceased babe successful a shallow sedate successful her backyard.”
Officials said that Demegillo ne'er contacted emergency services for help.
“This is 1 of those tragic cases that daze you to your halfway that a mother would let a newborn to dice because nan newborn was a distraction to her life,” Flagler county’s sheriff, Rick Staly, said successful a property release. “It’s difficult to comprehend really a mother would take to watch their babe drown alternatively of lifting nan babe retired of nan toilet.”
Demegillo’s lawyer did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected nan allegations.
Anthony was acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, during a sensational 2011 trial. Caylee went missing successful 2008 and authorities recovered her assemblage six months later.
Prosecutors had claimed that Anthony killed Caylee because nan woman interrupted her societal and making love life. They alleged that Anthony buried nan woman successful a wooded area adjacent home; Caylee’s corpse was discovered pinch strips of duct portion placed connected her chemoreceptor and mouth.
While Anthony was cleared of murder, she was recovered blameworthy of lying to constabulary successful narration to Caylee’s disappearance.
