Teen secretly gives birth, kills newborn in bedroom, NE cops say. She gets prison
A 16-year-old accused of secretly giving birth in her bedroom, then killing her newborn, will spend decades behind bars, Nebraska prosecutors said.
The now-18-year-old Chloe Coplen-Anderson was sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison on April 24, according to the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office.
The night of Nov. 6, 2023, Coplen-Anderson delivered her child in her room in Gordon without her parents knowing, according to prosecutors and the Lincoln Journal-Star.
She then went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and killed the newborn, prosecutors said.
That night, police were called to the home, where they were met by the girl’s father, who told police the child was a stillborn, according to court records reported by the Journal-Star.
An officer then went into a bedroom and found a teen holding the newborn wrapped in a towel, KOLN reported. According to court documents, the infant had multiple stab wounds, the outlet reported.
Coplen-Anderson pleaded no contest to murder in August, according to KOLN, in a deal where prosecutors dropped two charges.
Gordon is about a 400-mile drive northwest from Lincoln.