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Charges Dropped Against Wayne Woman Charged With Killing Newborn Charges Dropped Against Wayne Woman Charged With Killing Newborn
Charges Dropped Against Wayne Woman Charged With Killing Newborn Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes announced Monday that a Wayne woman accused of killing her newborn son a decade ago won't stand trial. The decision to drop the charges against Keri Barry follows the state Supreme Court’s refusal to consider a lower court’s ruling that prosecutors couldn’t admit a trash bag containing the baby’s remains into evidence because it was retrieved from her parents’ Wayne home without a search warrant. Authorities charged Barry with murder and child endangerment, saying that she gave birth in their basement in December 2009, stuffed the baby into the bag a…

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by Jerry DeMarco