Nov 12, 2004 10:13
STUDENT ARRESTED IN DEATH OF BABY
A Grant High School student was arrested on the suspicion of a murder Thursday after an autopsy revealed that the baby girl she had given birth to in her rented Pacoima room had been asphyxiated, authorities said.
Jeanne Ma, 18, remained at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, where she was taken Wednesday after she gave birth at her home in the 13000 block of Goleta Street, LAPD Officer Don Cox said.
Police found the body of the full-term baby girl, which Ma said was stillborn, in the trash can behind her home after she told officers where to find it, police said.