Brooke Skylar Richardson is alleged to have murdered her baby just days after her high school prom in 2017.
A cheerleader has been accused of battering, burning and burying her newborn baby.
Brooke Skylar Richardson has been charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, endangering children, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.
The alleged murder is said to have taken place just days after her high school prom
Richardson, now 20, has been charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, endangering children, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.
The prosecution alleges when she was 18 she gave birth to a healthy baby, named Annabelle, which she then killed in Carlisle, Ohio
They further accused her of possibly even trying to burn the corpse before burying her in the back yard.
Richardson, known as Skylar to her friends and family, claims the infant was stillborn.
Her case will come to trial on September 3 after a judge threw out three motions from the defence that would have further delayed it.
Authorities first learned of the baby from a doctor Richardson had visited just a few weeks before she gave birth.
The remains were found soon after, and prosecutors believe that Richardson buried the baby shortly after giving birth.
Richardson was full term when she gave birth to the girl, delivering the child in her bathroom within days after her senior prom.
County Prosecutor David Fornshell says Richardson, and her family had been worried about the community’s reaction to her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
He said: “Skylar and her family, particularly her mother, were pretty obsessed with external appearances and how things appeared to the outside world.
“You have a situation where, you know, she’s a cute high school, recent high school graduate; she was a cheerleader described (as) a good girl by her attorney as you heard after the arraignment.
“And I think that kind of perception is one that Skylar wanted to perpetuate and her mother wanted to
Richardson has been under house arrest for more than a year after a judge ordered a curfew of 9pm to 7am, random home visits and for Richardson to be subject to GPS monitoring.
Her lawyers have accused prosecutors of creating “a false narrative” to sensationalise the case.
They told the court: “What started as an 18-year-old high school girl who was frightened and saddened because of giving birth to a stillborn baby whom she named Annabelle and then telling her doctor of the stillborn and burial in the backyard turned into something sinister and grotesque.”
She gave birth just days after her high school prom
Richardson has been held under house arrest ahead of her trial.
The teen pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges
The baby’s charred body was found in the back garden of her Ohio home.
Police made the grim discovery of the baby’s body in July 2017.
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