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Sorority sister gets life for killing baby

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(CNN) — A former Ohio sorority girl found guilty of killing her hours-old unwanted baby and throwing the body in a dumpster was given a life sentence for her crime.

Emile Weaver, 21, was found guilty of the April 2015 killing inside the bathroom of her Delta Gamma Theta sorority house at the Muskingum University in Zanesville.

She was also found guilty of abuse of a corpse and of two counts of tampering with evidence.

Judge Mark Fleegle could have sentenced Weaver to life with a chance for parole in as little as 20 years, which her attorney requested, but the judge wasn’t convinced Weaver showed remorse for the death.

Weaver Ohio, allegedly hid her pregnancy for nine months and attempted to kill the baby while she was pregnant by drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, playing sports and taking labor-inducing pills, prosecutors argued.

On April 22, 2015, she gave birth to the 6-pound, 10-ounce baby girl, named Addison Grace, on the toilet of her sorority’s bathroom and later texted the man thought to be the father “No more baby,” and then “Taken care of.”

Prosecutors said Weaver then got a knife in the kitchen to cut the umbilical cord, put the baby and the placenta inside a trash bag, sealed it, and threw it away.

Sorority sisters who heard the newborn’s cries speculated that Weaver may have been pregnant due to her rapid weight gain and looked through the sorority houses trash cans.

The girls pierced a hole in a bag they found in the trash can and a baby’s foot appeared. They reported their grisly discovery to police, who arrested Weaver days later.

Weaver testified during her trial that she was in denial about her pregnancy and that she believed the baby was already dead when she gave birth and when she discarded the body.

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