OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska 16-year-old who admitted throwing her newborn out a second-floor window has been sentenced to probation and sent to a group home for causing the baby’s death.
The Omaha World-Herald reported that a judge on Friday also told the girl that she must undergo therapy, delete her Facebook account and perform community service.
The girl had pleaded guilty. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name children charged with crimes.
Police said she gave birth Sept. 30 at her mother’s apartment in Omaha, Neb., and tossed the child out the window before telling her mother what she had done.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine has said that what the girl did wasn’t planned, that “it was more of a panicked reaction.” An autopsy determined the newborn was in her seventh month of development at the time of birth.