The mother involved in the brutal murder of a newborn baby boy has pleaded guilty and now her trial is beginning.
A 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman gave birth to a baby boy in the restroom of a sports bar in Allentown, suffocated him, then stuffed his body in a toilet tank before returning to the bar to finish watching a wrestling match in her bloodied clothes. The woman, Amanda Catherine Hein, is now facing a single count of murder that could attract the death penalty due to the age of the child.
Hein was watching a wrestling match on August 18 with friends at a sports bar in Allentown. She apparently went into labor during the match and went to the restroom, not returning to her friends’ table until about forty minutes later.
In the interim, Hein had experienced labor, given birth to a healthy baby boy, and suffocated him. After he was dead, she wrapped his body in a plastic bag and left him in a toilet tank. Perhaps most bizarre about the incident is that Hein returned to her booth – wearing her bloody clothes – to continue watching the game, go outside for a cigarette break, and hang out with her friends at the bar.
The plea guarantees that Hein will be convicted of at least third-degree murder and will not be able to challenge her sentence on appeal. In return, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli told Judge Paula Roscioli that he has agreed to remove the death penalty from consideration.
At the time of Hein’s arrest, Morganelli said described photos of the newborn as looking like a “full-term baby.”
“I’ve seen dead people, shot, strangled,” Morganelli said. “But when you’re dealing with a baby, it is very difficult.”
Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics Inc. a national pro-life organization located in Denton, Texas, called Hein an abortion industry poster child and explains why.
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He told LifeNews.com, “Why are the nation’s pro-choice organizations not rushing to the defense of this woman? Remember, two of their standard arguments in support of abortion is that (a) women are the ones who get to determine when life begins and (b) the government has no legal right to tell a woman she has to have a baby she doesn’t want.
“Well, if those things are true, Ms. Hein fits the pro-choice model to a tee. After all, if she says that her baby’s life had not yet begun. What right does the State of Pennsylvania have to question that? And if she says that she has the legal right to decide for herself whether she wants to have a child or not, how is she different than any other woman sitting in the waiting room of any abortion clinic in the country?”
