Jessica Burgess from Nebraska has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping her then-17-year-old daughter have an abortion and then concealing the foetus
A mum who gave her teenage daughter pills to abort the baby that she was carrying and helped her burn and conceal the foetus has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Jessica Burgess, 42, pleaded guilty in July to tampering with human remains, false reporting and providing an abortion after at least 20 weeks of gestation, which is illegal in the state. Madison County District Judge Mark Johnson sentenced her Friday to one year in prison for each count, with the first two to run concurrently. The sentence for the abortion count was ordered to run after the first two, amounting to a two-year sentence.
Online court records show the judge deemed her unsuitable for probation. Burgess, of Norfolk, Nebraska, admitted at her plea hearing to helping her then-17-year-old daughter end her pregnancy. As part of her plea, charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dismissed.
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