Kelsey Carpenter's newborn died shortly after her home birth. A court said the case against her meets the prosecution threshold “by the thinnest of margins.'
In the court’s decision, obtained by Jezebel, a panel of three judges wrote that the prosecution team met the already low threshold to move forward with its case against Carpenter “by the thinnest of margins.”of her newborn, Kiera. Carpenter has said she chose to give birth at home because she feared her baby would be taken from her by the state if she had a hospital birth, due to her substance use.
. Together, these charges are punishable with up to two decades in prison. Carpenter has been in jail since February when she missed a hearing because she’d checked herself into rehab.But Mahathi Vemireddy, a legal fellow at Pregnancy Justice working on Carpenter’s case, told Jezebel on Monday that some aspects of the decision are cause for hope.
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