A MUM who killed her newborn baby by flinging the infant over a fence into a neighbour’s backyard has been convicted of murder.
Camille Wasinger-Konrad gave birth to a baby girl in her bedroom in the early hours of January 2, 2018, in Highland Ranch, Colorado.
The 23-year-old covered the newborn’s mouth with her hand to muffle her cries and then carried the little girl outside in a blanket.
She then tossed the minutes-old infant over the eight-foot fence separating her landlord’s home from a neighbouring property.
Wassinger-Konrad was arrested on the night of January 2 after deputies received a 911 call from her neighbour Jeanette Barich, who discovered the lifeless baby lying on her deck as she went to use her hot tub.
Jeanette said it was her dog that led her to the baby, who still had its umbilical cord attached, Fox 31 reports.
Yesterday a jury found the callous mother guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and a position of trust murder charge, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Deputy District Attorney Valerie Brewster told the jury that the infant hand been left in the neighbour’s backyard for a total of 15 freezing hours.
She said: “This defendant went about her day, knowing her unnamed daughter was there, helpless. She thought and made that choice.”
District Attorney George Brauchler described Wasinger-Konrad’s actions as ‘disgusting.’
He said: “Of all the many emotions of the magical first moments of a baby’s life, of all the many tender moments a mother shared in that first embrace with a completely helpless and fragile life, smothering a newborn and pitching its body over a fence in the cold of January is impossible to understand.”
Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies who responded to the 911 call shortly before 10pm on January 2 searched the area and found a bloody shower curtain in a bin belonging to Wasinger-Konrad.
The woman’s landlord told detectives that she had cleaned a large amount of blood that morning from the upstairs bathroom that her tenant of four months used but said she was unaware that Wasinger-Konrad was pregnant.
Wasinger-Konrad told investigators at the time of her arrest that she did not know she was expecting until she gave birth at home.
She explained that she was awakened between 6am and 7am on January 2 by painful stomach cramps and “the baby just came out.”
The baby killer told a detective that she did not want to get in trouble adding, “I just got rid of it”.
Blood evidence presented in court indicated that the infant bounced off a railing and the back of a deck chair before landing onto the deck, where the dog picked up its scent about 14 hours later.
A detective testified that a person who works at a local supermarket with Wasinger-Konrad told him that she had recently requested a new schedule and a less physically demanding job citing her pregnancy.
The murderer faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, and is due to be sentenced on November 15.
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