Judge orders Omaha teen who threw baby out window to serve probation, live in group home - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]An Omaha teenager who threw her newborn baby out the window needs to start getting therapy, a judge said Friday, and she isn’t getting it while in the Douglas County Youth Center. [b]Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Christopher Kelly ordered Antonia Lopez to be placed on probation, live in a group home, take part in individual and family therapy, delete her Facebook account and perform 50 hours of community service.[/b] The judge added that he wasn’t sure anyone ever puts such an incident behind them. Lopez, 16, gave birth in the early hours of Sept. 30 at her apartment in the Kellom Knolls complex near 25th Avenue and Cuming Street. After throwing the baby out a second-floor window, Lopez told her mother what she had done. [b]Lopez initially was charged as an adult with one count of felony child abuse resulting in death. She faced 20 years to life in prison if convicted.[/b] In February, the case was transferred to juvenile court, and Lopez admitted to the crime. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said then that his office agreed to move the case from district court after weighing the teenager’s mental state, actions and lack of criminal record. Lopez’s defense attorney, Rebecca McClung, said in court Friday that Lopez had only a theft charge on her record. Deputy Douglas County Attorney Jennifer Chrystal-Clark asked that Lopez be placed in a group home in part because of comments Lopez made that prompted concerns that she didn’t understand the severity of her actions. There also were concerns about her family not understanding the severity of what happened. Kelly ordered that Lopez’s Facebook account be deleted because since her arrest, thousands of negative comments from people around the country have been left on her page. Lopez will remain incarcerated until she’s placed in a group home. So far, officials have had problems finding a group home willing to take Lopez because many see her as a risk, Chrystal-Clark said. Kleine said Lopez’s probation is open-ended, so if the judge decides, probation could continue until Lopez turns 19. Lopez turns 17 in June. Police have said that after Lopez threw the baby outside, her mother found the baby and, “distraught and frantic,” called 911 at 4:12 a.m. She performed CPR on the baby until paramedics and police arrived. The baby and Lopez were taken to Creighton University Medical Center, where the baby was pronounced dead upon arrival. An autopsy later determined that Lopez had been pregnant for 25 to 28 weeks — about the seventh month of gestation. In a Snapchat message to her boyfriend, Lopez wrote, “It was a girl by the way.” The autopsy revealed that the baby suffered bleeding near her skull, brain, spine and abdomen. The pathologist told police that the bleeding indicated that there was a heartbeat — the baby was alive when the blunt-force injuries were sustained. Lopez told a police detective that she had not known she was pregnant and woke up in pain. She said she laid a towel on the floor of her bedroom because she thought she was having her period. Lopez’s boyfriend disputed her assertion that she didn’t know she was pregnant. An Omaha police officer said the boyfriend told him that he had urged Lopez to tell her mother about the pregnancy and see a doctor, but she didn’t.[/quote] More details in the sources [url]http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/judge-orders-omaha-teen-who-threw-baby-out-window-to/article_8121e9e4-10a4-11e7-a1ad-fb0344e26945.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next[/url] [url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-who-tossed-her-newborn-from-window-gets-probation/[/url] [url]http://www.ketv.com/article/teen-accused-of-throwing-just-born-baby-out-window-sent-snapchat-messages-to-childs-father-detective-says/8102911[/url] This is honestly one of the most messed up stories I have ever heard.

Terrible situation for everyone involved, but I won't call for the girls head for acting irrationally under extreme stress (and also a shit ton of hormones and adrenaline). I think the sentencing she got was just and she probably learned her lesson from the trauma she most likely went through. Wear a condom and/or use birth control kids.

[QUOTE=Toro;52023207]Terrible situation for everyone involved, but I won't call for the girls head for acting irrationally under extreme stress (and also a shit ton of hormones and adrenaline). I think the sentencing she got was just and she probably learned her lesson from the trauma she most likely went through. Wear a condom and/or use birth control kids.[/QUOTE] Did you even read the article? She didnt learn shit

From the article: [QUOTE]Kelly ordered that Lopez’s Facebook account be deleted because since her arrest, thousands of negative comments from people around the country have been left on her page.[/QUOTE] You know, as much as it would be to shit on free speech, I feel like the cops should use this to gather evidence on trolls and make their lives miserable too. I feel like not even weightage is given to how much damage cyber-bullying can have on vulnerable people and influence their actions - whether it be like this unfortunate case above or even suicide.

[QUOTE=-nesto-;52023215]Did you even read the article? She didnt learn shit[/QUOTE] I read all 3 articles, there's nothing there about her flaunting about getting away with killing her fucking own child in a frantic panic or not learning what she did. I'd say the only evidences pointing to that are the snapchats to the father. The DA is saying she understands what she did and was in a state of extreme panic (as well as believing it was a miscarriage due to the baby not breathing and being born 2 months early), and I standby that.

[QUOTE]comments Lopez made that prompted concerns that she didn’t understand the severity of her actions. There also were concerns about her family not understanding the severity of what happened[/QUOTE] Did you miss that? Coupled with the fact she lied to police and the joke of a punishment, its prolly safe to say shes not gonna learn shit from this ordeal. She's getting off the hook for a horrendous crime.

[QUOTE=-nesto-;52023284]Did you miss that? Coupled with the fact she lied to police and the joke of a punishment, its prolly safe to say shes not gonna learn shit from this ordeal. [B]She's getting off the hook for a horrendous crime[/B].[/QUOTE] I don't think this is going under the radar if or when she tries to integrate back into society, I'd wager "I threw my baby out of a window" is a pretty big scarlet letter.

[QUOTE=-nesto-;52023284]Did you miss that? Coupled with the fact she lied to police and the joke of a punishment, its prolly safe to say shes not gonna learn shit from this ordeal. She's getting off the hook for a horrendous crime.[/QUOTE] She probably doesn't understand the severity due to her believing it was a miscarriage (due to the baby not breathing / presumably not moving much), I do believe better actions could've been taken, but I don't believe she should spend 20+ years in prison / her life should be ruined even more than it is now for a mistake she made under extreme panic. You're acting as if she's getting completely off the hook when it's likely her experience in a group home isn't gonna be that cozy once the other people learn she killed a child with no other details combined with having "throwing a baby out of the window" on her record.

Shes a juvenile and being tried as one. She can expunge her record when she turns 18 and itll never appear when she applies for a job or does a background check for an apartment etc etc. She can integrate just fine now.

[quote]So far, officials have had problems finding a group home willing to take Lopez because many see her as a risk[/quote] As if she would start throwing babies at any moment again? I don't see why she needs anything other than psychological counseling

This is a joke, right? Christ.. While I agree with trying her as a minor, this girl needs more then just therapy and 50 hours of service. I'm not talking Jail time, but some serious psychological help if she's not taking this seriously even after all the controversy surrounding her. I'm disgusted, yes, and honestly? I don't think I'd be able to look her in the eye the same way again If I was her parent. But at the end of the day she's just a misguided, fucked up kid who needs to learn to realize what she did is wrong in every sense of the god damn word. And the last thing I'd want to do is send her jail so she would come back into society 20+ years later and still not have learned a fucking thing.

It's not messed up, it's juvenile courts.