Tue Jul 11, 2023 – 10:14 am EDT
MADISON, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — A Nebraska woman pleaded guilty to assisting her daughter in aborting a baby after 20-weeks and later burning and burying her grandchild.
“Under a plea agreement, Jessica Burgess, 42, of Norfolk, admitted to providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, false reporting and tampering with human skeletal remains,” the Associated Press reported. “Charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dismissed.”
“Burgess was accused of helping her then-17-year-old daughter, Celeste Burgess, end her pregnancy. Madison County District Court documents show she ordered abortion pills on the internet,” the Associated Press reported.
The baby was 29-weeks old and the pair “burned the remains and buried them in a field north of Norfolk in northeastern Nebraska,” according to the AP. Jessica Burgess will be sentenced in September while her daughter will be sentenced on July 20 after she “pleaded guilty in May to removing, concealing or abandoning a dead body.”
The story first attracted national attention not because of the macabre details, but rather because the mainstream media treated it as a story about how
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