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A Nebraska mother who provided an illegal abortion for her daughter and helped dispose of the fetus gets 2 years in prison, report says

Author:     Mitchell McCluskey
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Sat September 23, 2023 | 9:30 AM EDT
 Link: A Nebraska mother who provided an illegal abortion for her daughter and helped dispose of the fetus gets 2 years in prison, report says
Stephan:  

This is what is happening to women, what they are driven to in Republican controlled states. I have to confess that I do not see how it is possible to be a woman and vote Republican, yet I recognize that millions of women do this.

Jessica Burgess, center, alongside her attorney, Brad Ewalt, right, is escorted out of the Madison County District courtroom by Madison County Sheriff Todd Volk, in Madison, Nebraska, on Friday.

A Nebraska mother who was accused of helping her 17-year-old daughter have an illegal abortion and disposing of the fetus was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, the Norfolk Daily News reported.

The sentence comes after Jessica Burgess, 42, pleaded guilty in July to two felonies – removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body, and performing an abortion beyond 20 weeks – and a misdemeanor charge of false reporting.

CNN has reached out to Burgess’s attorney, the Madison County attorney and the Madison County District Court for comment.

Burgess’s daughter, Celeste Burgess, now 19, was sentenced in July to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to a felony charge of removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body.

Nebraska woman charged with disposing of fetus following illegal abortion sentenced to 90 days in jail

Norfolk police began investigating the women in April 2022 […]

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