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Nicole Beecroft has been sentenced to life in prison for the April 2007 stabbing murder of her newborn baby. Apparently Nicole hid her pregnancy for 9 months, secretly gave birth to a baby in her mother’s house in Oakdale, Minnesota, then killed the baby she gave birth to by stabbing it 130 times. Afterward she threw the body into a trash bin.

It seems like such a shame that a pregnancy had to result in the murder of an innocent baby and life in jail for a teenager who was so convinced that having a baby is such a horrible thing she couldn’t under any circumstance let anyone know she was pregnant. She hid her pregnancy for as long as she could but then the baby wouldn’t stay inside her any longer.

What must she have been going through all alone with her secret for 9 months and then all the pain and torture of giving birth all by herself in a her bedroom. She must have built up so much rage and self hatred in all that time and it all just came to a climax the day she gave birth. Her rage exploded. Now her life is over. There’s temptation to pity her; but then you think about the baby. She stabbed it 130 times. Aborting it when she learned she was pregnant have been more humane.