'You just didn’t want this baby, you didn’t want this pregnancy based on the person that got you pregnant,' District Judge James Kube said.
earlier this year to one felony charge of concealing or abandoning a dead body in exchange for prosecutors dropping two misdemeanor charges. Prosecutors allege that, when she was 17, she took abortion pills her mother purchased online, had a stillbirth at about 29 weeks, and the two burned and buried the remains.
Kube seemed to wave away Burgess’ concerns over co-parenting with an abuser as if they were immaterial, and not a crucial part of someone’s decision whether or not continue a pregnancy. He also asked Burgess if she had considered or organizing a burial, but she said that her family struggled financially and she didn’t believe they could afford the cost.It’s not known when Burgess first learned she was pregnant or when she told her mother. At the time, Nebraska banned abortions
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