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Hackensack Woman, 19, Charged With Killing Newborn Boy
Authorities charged a Hackensack woman with killing her newborn son.
Kimberly Aponte, 19, hid the unwanted pregnancy from her family, authorities said.
Aponte gave birth before dawn Saturday to a full-term boy whom she then wrapped in a towel and stuffed into a hamper, they said.
Aponte's father called city police to the family's Hackensack Avenue apartment Saturday afternoon, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
There, the officers found the lifeless child, he said.
Aponte, who was in her bedroom, was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center, the prosecutor said…