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Mother Pleads Guilty to Killing Newborns
By BEN DOBBIN
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) - A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing two of her newborns, one on Mother's Day last year while her husband and two children slept, and hiding their bodies in concrete.
Stacy DeBeer, 31, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for two consecutive terms of 15 years to life in prison. She would not be eligible for parole until she served 30 years, prosecutor R. Michael Tantillo said.
Before dawn on May 11, 2003 - Mother's Day and her 29th birthday - DeBeer said she gave birth on her living-room couch, placed the infant girl in a garbage bag and hid the body. She told police she killed another newborn, also a girl, five years earlier.
DeBeer told relatives she was pregnant last year. When a baby failed to materialize, a suspicious relative snooping around the basement of DeBeer's home in Farmington found the body encased in concrete in a plastic pail.
The other child's body was then found in a bucket of concrete left in a shed at DeBeer's former home in Canadice, another rural town in western New York.
Her husband Brian DeBeer, 32, was charged with hindering prosecution by helping hide the first infant in 1998. His trial could be held in August. The couple have an 8-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter who are being cared for by relatives.
DeBeer's sentencing was set for July 20. If convicted at trial, she could have drawn up to 50 years to life in prison.
Calls to her lawyer, Robert Zimmerman, were not immediately returned. Zimmerman had explored the possibility of defending DeBeer on grounds she suffered from a mental disease or defect.
DeBeer, who pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, said in an interview after her arrest in January that she wanted to avoid ``a lengthy, drawn-out trial.''
``I shook so hard when they were born, then I killed them,'' DeBeer tearfully told a caseworker. ``I never meant for my life to be so out of control. I never meant to hurt Brian and the kids.''