Amy Grossberg

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American teenager who gave birth to a baby and discarded it in a trash bag. She and her beau, Brian Peterson, Jr. (born on June 10, 1978, Long Island, NY), both 18, from good homes, an affluent, caring background, were in love. When Amy got pregnant, they kept it a secret. When she went into labor on 11/12/1996, they drove to a motel in Newark, Delaware where they delivered a baby boy, put it in a plastic bag and left it in a dumpster. They checked in to the motel about 3:00 AM, delivered the baby boy about 4:30 AM and checkout out at 5:00 AM. The baby was found and diagnosed as a live, healthy birth. It had died from multiple skull fractures and from having been shaken. The families were devastated. On 7/09/1998, the two former lovers sat in a courtroom for sentencing, not looking across the room at each other. Grossberg was given two and a half years prison, and Peterson, two years. It was the day before Grossberg's 20th birthday. She was released from prison May 2000 for good behavior, serving only 17 months of her 2 1/2 year sentence. Link to Wikipedia biography