Forrest+S.+Horan+(2-B)

Adolescent Justice Case ** Forrest S. Horan  ** ** 11/12/09  **   Title of article: College Student Kills Baby in Teri Rhodes Copycat Crime Kathryn McCoy, 19, a sophomore from Bellarmine University was arrested November 6 2007 for the crime of killing her newly born girl in her dorm room. The police say that they found the newly born baby girl in a duffel bag after further questioning of McCoy, they later found that McCoy had given birth earlier that night in her dormitory bathroom. Police asked family and fellow students about the pregnancy however they found that McCoy had hidden the pregnancy from everyone. The autopsy discovered that the baby girl had been close if not full term of the pregnancy and that he baby had been alive at time of birth. Kathryn McCoy was very disturbed when she found that her roommate had called the police, she then took the baby in the bag back and placed it in a duffel bag and hid it in a closet. She later said that she committed these crimes because she was worried about this pregnancy giving her a bad name and holding her back from the life that she had always imagined. This article literally made me sick; there is nothing more disturbing than a mother killing her newly born baby. I find it also very disturbing that ** McCoy did kill her baby even with the new laws that state that any new born baby under the age of 45 day can be dropped off at any fire, police, or EMT departments. This makes me feel very good about the final decision from the court which was murder in the first degree. ** Murder cases, http://pysih.com/2007/10/29/kathryn-mccoy/.
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