Nebraska Woman Pleads Guilty to Helping 17-Year-Old Daughter With Illegal 29-Week Home Abortion, Burning Baby’s Remains
A Nebraska woman has pleaded guilty to helping her 17-year-old daughter perform an illegal 29-week abortion before burning and burying the baby’s remains.
Jessica Burgess, 42, obtained the abortion pills for her then-17-year-old daughter Celeste Burgess.
The mother pleaded guilty to providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, false reporting, and tampering with human skeletal remains. Charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dropped by prosecutors as part of a plea deal.
According to court documents, the mother had obtained the abortion pills online.
“After the teen aborted the 29-week-old fetus, the two burned the remains and buried them in a field north of Norfolk in northeastern Nebraska,” Fox News reports.
