Woman Who Put Newborn In Toilet Tank Sentenced To Life

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

A Pennsylvania woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after being sentenced in connection to the killing of her newborn child.

Amanda Hein, 26, had gone to a bar in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last August to watch a pay-per-view wrestling event with three men.  She went into labor and gave birth during the event in the women’s bathroom.  She then wrapped the newborn in a plastic bag, placed it in the toilet’s tank, went outside for a cigarette and then returned to watch the wrestling event.

The baby was found the next day when the cleaning crew could not flush the toilet.  The county medical examiner says the child was born alive and suffocated in the plastic bag.

She had pleaded guilty to murder as part of a plea deal last month but it was up to a jury to decide if it was pre-meditated first-degree murder or third-degree murder.  The jury went with first-degree which called for a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Hein’s defense attorneys claimed that her actions were spur-of-the-moment out of shock because she did not know she was pregnant.

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