{"id":330432,"date":"2025-04-30T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330432"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:17:44","slug":"teenager-decades-prison-shockingly-brutal-murder-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teenager-decades-prison-shockingly-brutal-murder-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager to spend decades in prison for shockingly brutal murder of newborn baby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An 18-year-old girl will spend 35 to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty<\/a> to the murder of her newborn baby.<\/p>\n

On November 6, 2023, Chloe Coplen-Anderson was arrested after her father called the Gordon Police Department, reporting that his 16-year-old daughter had given birth to a stillborn baby that he didn’t believe could be saved. Her mother, however, was sobbing, and said her daughter had killed the baby.<\/p>\n

Coplen-Anderson had allegedly been hiding the pregnancy from her parents, and gave birth in her bedroom, without either of them knowing. She then went into the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and slit the baby boy’s throat.<\/p>\n

How her parents found out what happened is unclear, but her mother was allegedly hysterical<\/a>, telling officers “she hurt him” and that you can “see the marks.”<\/p>\n

When Coplen-Anderson actually gave birth is unclear, but her parents found the baby’s body when the teenager left the house to go to the store. She had tried to hide the baby’s body by stuffing it into a plastic bag, then inserting that into an empty dog food bag. She then attempted to cover it all up with clothing.<\/p>\n