{"id":312055,"date":"2024-05-11T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312055"},"modified":"2024-05-10T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:14:13","slug":"woman-20-years-prison-newborn-twin-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-20-years-prison-newborn-twin-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing newborn twin sons 21 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Michigan woman has been sentenced<\/a> to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her newborn twin sons in 2003.<\/p>\n

According to People Magazine, 44-year-old Antoinette Briley of Holland, Michigan, pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced. She was arrested in December 2020, and after being detained, she confessed to her involvement in the babies’ deaths and to disposing of their bodies, according to Cook County Sheriff’s Office. Briley, who also has a daughter, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

The baby boys are said to have been killed shortly after they were born and one still had the placenta attached to him. Their bodies were dumped in a trash bin in an alley in Illinois. A waste management employee saw the babies in the lift bucket of her garbage truck on June 6, 2003. Autopsies revealed<\/a> the boys were born alive and died of asphyxiation. However, detectives were unable to determine where the babies came from or who birthed them or killed them \u2014 and it would be 15 years before investigators took a second look at the case.<\/p>\n

Detective Ginny Georgantas said she asked to have the investigation reopened due to the development of new genetic genealogy technology. Using DNA from Briley’s tossed cigarette butt, they were able to connect her to the twins.<\/p>\n