The baby's body was found in a plastic shopping bag floating on the river 31 years ago.
YORK COUNTY, S.C. - A South Carolina woman was found guilty of homicide by child abuse in a According to the York County Solicitor’s Office, 50-year-old Stacy Rabon, of Rock Hill, S.C., was found guilty Friday on the charge of homicide by child abuse for the death of a baby in 1992 that was found floating in the Catawba River. The jury was hung on the charge of murder,The body of a baby was found floating on the Catawba River between Rock Hill and Fort Mill on Aug. 12, 1992.
She had stab wounds, but the coroner’s report determined that death was the result of suffocation, not drowning or the stabbings. Detectives reexamined the case in October 2020 and were able to submit DNA from the bed sheet that held the baby to the York County Forensic Biology Lab for testing. Results from this DNA testing identified Rabon as a suspect, and deputies were eventually able to obtain a warrant for her arrest for homicide by child abuse.
In 1992, the baby was named Angel Hope, rather than Baby Jane Doe, by members of the community, who also paid for her burial expenses. She is buried at the Forest Hills Cemetery, Section 4, in Rock Hill. Sentencing on the homicide by child abuse conviction will be on Aug. 21, the York County Solicitor’s Office said.
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