A former sorority sister wiped away tears as she was jailed for life for giving birth in the bathroom of her sorority house and throwing her baby in the trash.
Emile Weaver, 21, was found guilty of aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence by a jury last month.
Weaver, a former student at Muskingum University, was sentenced to life in prison without parole at Muskingum County Common Pleas Court in Zanesville, Ohio, on Monday.
Prosecutors said Weaver gave birth in a bathroom at the Delta Gamma Theta sorority at Muskingum University on April 22, 2015, then purposefully caused the death of her baby daughter.
They said the baby girl died from asphyxiation after Weaver put her in a plastic trash bag and left the child outside the sorority house in New Concord.
Weaver, of Clarington, testified at trial that she had been in denial about the pregnancy.
She said she thought the baby was already dead when she put the newborn in the trash bag.
Weaver knew she was pregnant all along and engaged in risky behaviors like drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana and playing in a dodgeball tournament because she never intended to keep the baby, prosecutors said.
A few days after giving birth, Weaver told her roommate that she had a miscarriage and went to hospital with her mother saying she had experienced cramps.
She told doctors that she found a four-inch mass of tissue that 'looked like a baby' when she went to the bathroom. However, medical tests showed she had carried the baby to full term.
She was arrested and held on $1million bail after her sorority sisters found the baby tied in a plastic bag on the ground next to a large trash can outside their house the same night Weaver gave birth.
Several members of the sorority testified at trial saying the rumors that Weaver was pregnant started in the fall of 2014.
Although Weaver denied it, students noticed she often held a pillow or stuffed animal in front of her stomach, they told the court.
In a letter to Fleegle before her sentencing, Weaver said that she didn't fully comprehend her actions until she was staring at the body of the baby, who was named Addison, in a tiny casket at her funeral.
'I ask God for forgiveness, and today, all I can do is ask for all of yours,' she said in court.
Early in the process, Weaver had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge ruled that she was mentally competent.
Muskingum County Prosecutor D. Michael Haddox said he was satisfied with the sentence.
'We believe justice has been served as best as humanly possible,' he said.
Source : dailyMail
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