A former sorority girl will likely spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her newborn child. Emile Weaver was found guilty of murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence after killing her baby last year at her sorority house at Muskingum University in Ohio.
According to the New York Daily News, she gave birth in the bathroom and used a knife from the kitchen to cut the umbilical cord before placing the baby and the placenta in a garbage bag and throwing them away. She then texted who she thought was the baby’s father—a paternity test said otherwise—"No more baby. Taken care of."
A sorority house manager found the gruesome scene and, thinking the blood came from someone’s period, sent out a mass text asking for the culprit to clean it up. Housemates who had heard the newborn’s cries immediately put two and two together and searched through garbage bags until they found the the baby's body. Reports say the baby died from suffocation.
Prosecutors also say she drank, smoked weed, and even played dodgeball while pregnant in an effort to get rid of the baby, according to Raw Story. She also allegedly took 80 pills of black cohosh, a supplement that those who are pregnant are warned not to take.
"I ask God for forgiveness, and today, all I can do is ask for all of yours," the 21-year-old said in court.
Her life sentence comes with the possibility of parole in about 20 years.
