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Tragic! who is to blame for his baby’s life? Antonia Lopez, Nebraska teen girl who killed her baby by throwing her out of a window, avoids jail time

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Nebraska teen who killed newborn by throwing baby out the window&comma; avoids jail time  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Antonia Lopez&comma; 16&comma; threw her infant daughter from an second-floor window minutes after going into labor at an Omaha&comma; Neb&period;&comma;  apt around 4 a&period;m&period; on Sep 30&comma; 2016<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>She was charged with felony child abuse resulting in death<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Lopez&comma; of Omaha&comma; Nebraska&comma; took a plea deal that will put her on detention at home&comma; Feb 1&comma; Submitting  to drug testing and a psychiatric evaluation <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>The case was transferred to juvenile court in Jan <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Judges ordered Lopez into a group home instead&comma; to delete Facebook account<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-byline"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-160346" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;antonia-lopez1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Antonia Lopez1" width&equals;"564" height&equals;"705" &sol;><strong>Troubled teen Antonia Lopez&comma;  who killed her baby by throwing her out of a window&comma; is going to a group home&comma; won&&num;8217&semi;t be sent to jail&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">A Nebraska teenager who killed her premature baby girl by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;16&sol;disturbed-nebraska-teenager-tells-boyfriend-their-baby-is-a-girl-right-after-tossing-her-newborn-infant-out-window&sol;">tossing the newborn out a second story window <&sol;a>was ordered to delete her Facebook account&comma; and somehow avoided jail time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Antonia Lopez gave birth in the early hours of Sept&period; 30&comma; 2016 at her apartment in theKellom-Knolls apartment complex&period;  After throwing the baby out a second-floor window&comma; Lopez told her mother what she had done&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The teen appears to be getting off with a slap on the wrist for a very serious crime&comma; but Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Christopher Kelly said Antonia Lopez who faced sentencing as a juvenile&comma; will not be facing any time behind bars&comma; the<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;omaha&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;teen-who-threw-baby-out-window-is-ordered-to-serve&sol;article&lowbar;8121e9e4-10a4-11e7-a1ad-fb0344e26945&period;html"> Omaha World Herald<&sol;a> reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lopez&comma; 16&comma; was instead ordered to delete her Facebook account&comma; live in a group home&comma; start individual and family therapy and perform 50 hours of community service&period; The teen was also placed on probation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the outlet&comma; the judge wanted the teen to get rid of her Facebook because the crime has led to people from around the country leaving her negative comments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-160348" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;antonia-lopez-threw-her-newborn-daughter-out-the-window-of-her-apt1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Antonia Lopez threw her newborn daughter out the window of her apt1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"668" &sol;>Antonia Lopez threw her minutes-old daughter out the window of her second-floor apt<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Lopez admitted in February to throwing her newborn daughter out the window of her Kellom-Knolls Apartment complex on Sept&period; 30&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;16&sol;disturbed-nebraska-teenager-tells-boyfriend-their-baby-is-a-girl-right-after-tossing-her-newborn-infant-out-window&sol;" rel&equals;"bookmark">Disturbed Nebraska teenager tells boyfriend their baby is a girl right after tossing her newborn infant out window<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a>Cops and emergency personnel responding to the apartment complex around 4 a&period;m&period; after receiving multiple calls about an infant tossed from a window&comma; found an adult female performing CPR on a lifeless infant in the apartment complex parking lot&period; The baby was rushed into an ambulance&comma; but died on the way to an area hospital&period; The disheveled would-be mother was also taken to the hospital&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Interviews with the teen revealed that she had been asleep and alone in her room when she unexpectedly went into labor&period; In a fit of panic&comma; the girl threw the infant out of her window before telling her mother what had happened&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police said after the 16-year-old committed the crime&comma; she told her mother what she did&period; Lopez also sent a Snapchat message to her boyfriend informing him that the baby was a girl&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lopez&&num;8217&semi;s mom called 911 a little after 4 a&period;m&period; the day of the incident and performed CPR on the newborn until paramedics arrived&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Less than 24 hours after being rescued from unspeakable abuse&comma; a mother and&&num;8230&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Both Lopez and the baby were taken to Creighton University Medical Center&comma; where the baby was pronounced dead&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;An autopsy revealed that the baby girl had suffered bleeding near her brain&comma; skull&comma; abdomen and spine&comma; Omaha World Herald reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The pathologist also determined that the baby was alive when the incident happened&period; Lopez had told police that she thought she had given birth to a stillborn&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The child wasn’t a stillborn&comma;” Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Omaha authorities at the time said Lopez was going to be charged as an adult with felony child abuse resulting in death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lopez told investigators that she did not know she was pregnant&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The DA&&num;8217&semi;s office appeared to agree with her statemen&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It wasn’t a planned-out&comma; thought-out process&period; It was more of a panicked reaction&comma;” Don Kleine told the<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;omaha&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;omaha-teen-admits-to-throwing-newborn-out-window-killing-the&sol;article&lowbar;04db97c4-f07d-55dc-af56-1ca8fefc2420&period;html"> Omaha World-Herald<&sol;a>&comma; at the time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; the teen mother&&num;8217&semi;s boyfriend disputed her claim that she didn’t know she was pregnant&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to him they started dating in January 2016 and had sex in February&period; The boyfriend told police that he had urged Lopez to tell her mother about the pregnancy and seek a doctor for the unborn baby&comma; but she didn’t&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the early morning hours when she was in labor&comma; Lopez reportedly&comma; sent her boyfriend several text messages and one photo through Snapchat&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;12&colon;56 a&period;m&period;&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Babe I’m having contractions in my lower abs every couple seconds&period; It hurts so much&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-160355" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;antonia-lopez-threw-her-newborn-daughter-out-the-window-of-her-apt2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Antonia Lopez threw her newborn daughter out the window of her apt2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"713" &sol;><strong> Police tape cordons off the crime scene at<&sol;strong><strong>Kallom knolls apartment comples&comma; Omaha&comma; Nebraska on October 1&comma; 2016<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Judge appeared to vacate an earlier plea agreement for Lopez&comma; who entered a plea of admission at the Douglas County Juvenile court that was to see her being supervised under a probation officer at her home&comma;according to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kmtv&period;com&sol;news&sol;local-news&sol;teen-enters-plea-in-baby-death" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">KMTV<&sol;a>&comma; the deal included alcohol and drug testing&comma; psychiatric evaluation&comma; school attendance&comma; electronic monitoring and other rules compliance in order to successfully complete her sentence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wsbtv&period;com&sol;news&sol;trending-now&sol;teen-who-threw-newborn-baby-out-window-wont-serve-any-jail-time&lowbar;&sol;506337735">WSB-TV Atlanta reported<&sol;a> that Lopez was ordered to live in a group home because judges aren&&num;8217&semi;t sure she or her family understands the severity of the crime&period; Her attorney&comma; Rebecca McClung&comma; did confirm that Lopez does understand and is trying to deal with what happened&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;The mother is coping the best she can&comma;” McClung said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The grandmother is coping the best she can&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Initially charged as an adult with felony child abuse resulting in death&comma; the teen mother was potentially facing 20 years in prison&period; In February&comma; her case was however&comma; transferred to juvenile court after her mental state and lack of criminal record were considered<br &sol;>&NewLine;The picture that emerged was the portrait of a troubled youth with authority issues&period; On her Facebook page Lopez identifies herself as a Central High student&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her family filed nine missing person reports for her within a span of four months back in 2015&period; later that year&comma; Lopez and another teen were accused of shoplifting cellphone cases from an Omaha Walmart store and concealing them in a pink purse&period; When confronted&comma; both girls refused to give information to authorities&comma; including their real names&period; Transfered to a  youth center&comma; the girls remained uncooperative until a cellphone began to ring from a purse&period; A staff member answered&comma; and the caller&comma; who was the mother of one of the girls&comma; identified both teens&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lopez was sentenced to at least six months of probation on charges of theft by unlawful taking and false information&period; Her juvenile review hearing for that case was scheduled for Dec&period; 15&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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