A 20-year-old former student at Muskingum University in Zanesville, US, allegedly put her baby in a plastic bag hours after giving birth in the school's Delta Gamma Theta sorority house April 22.
The baby, identified only as "A.G.W." in court records, died in the bag from asphyxiation.
Emile Weaver, who was a sophomore at Muskingum and member of the sorority, then put her newborn girl in the rubbish outside the university-owned house, police said.
She also cleaned up the blood and placenta from the birth.
Weaver has been charged with aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and two counts of tampering with evidence for her cleaning up, prosecutors said.
She is being held on $1 million bail and faces life in prison if found guilty.
The baby's father was identified this week by a DNA test, but hasn't been publicly identified and will not be indicted, according to the Zanesville Times Recorder.
Some of Weaver's sorority sisters were in the house during the birth and alleged killing, but it's unclear if any of them were aware of the birth.
Source - NYDN
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