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Boxed Baby Boy Buried In Backyard After Dangerous Abortion; Grandma Waives Hearing: DA Boxed Baby Boy Buried In Backyard After Dangerous Abortion; Grandma Waives Hearing: DA
Boxed Baby Boy Buried In Backyard After Dangerous Abortion; Grandma Waives Hearing: DA A Lancaster County woman accused of endangering her teen daughter with an unsupervised, late-term abortion and then helping to bury the baby boy’s body has waived her preliminary hearing, prosecutors said on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Shannon Noelle Jones, 50, of East Donegal Township, will face trial in county court on charges of Endangering the Welfare of Children, Corruption of Minors, and Conspiracy to Conceal the Death of a Child. Jones allegedly purchased abortion medication online for her then-17-year-old daughter despite knowing the girl was too far along in her pregnancy to qualify for a l…

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Stepdad Buried 14-Year-Old’s Newborn In Backyard Days After Secret Birth: Affidavit Stepdad Buried 14-Year-Old’s Newborn In Backyard Days After Secret Birth: Affidavit
Stepdad Buried 14-Year-Old’s Newborn In Backyard Days After Secret Birth: Affidavit A baby girl secretly born to a 14-year-old in a Milton bedroom was dead within hours. By the next morning, her decomposing body was in a shallow backyard grave—dug by the teen’s stepfather with garden shears, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Tuesday, July 8. Donan Antonio Maradiaga-Orellana, 29, was arrested Wednesday, July 2, after Milton Borough Police say he buried the full-term newborn behind his Center Street home in the middle of the night and attempted to cover up the death without alerting authorities. He’s being held at Northumberland County Jail on $75,000 b…

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Husband Claims 'Wrongful Incarceration,' NJ Mom Sentenced In Infant's Death Husband Claims 'Wrongful Incarceration,' NJ Mom Sentenced In Infant's Death
Husband Claims 'Wrongful Incarceration,' NJ Mom Sentenced In Infant's Death A Bergen County mother has been sentenced in the 2022 death of her infant son. Sun Min “Grace” Yoo Chan, an educational counselor from River Edge, was sentenced this week to five years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless manslaughter in the 2022 death of her 3-month-old son, NorthJersey.com reports. She must serve 85% of her sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Chan was initially arrested on May 3, 2022, and charged with murder, aggravated assault, and child endangerment, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella. Police responded to her home on March 29, 2022, aro…

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by Cecilia Levine