According to the court documents, the 28-year-old defendant, Fardousa, reportedly took a knife from the kitchen and slit the thr0at of her 3-month-old baby before stuffing the infant’s body in a garbage but and throwing it into a dumpster outside of her apartment building.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, court records say. Initially, the mother was charged with first-degree murder, but she reached a deal with the Attorney’s Office and pleaded guilty to the lesser charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping the first-degree murder count. She faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
Prosecutors said that the mother was taken into custody after someone called 911 and told the dispatcher that Fardousa’s baby was dead. The 911 caller reportedly said that the infant was dead and the baby’s mother reportedly told him that she had thrown the baby in the dumpster. Read the full story here ▶
