"Woman who killed baby at D.C. convent gets 4 years" Associated Press May 24, 2014
WASHINGTON — A woman who acknowledged killing her newborn son at a Washington convent where she was studying to become a nun was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
Sosefina Amoa, 26, has said she didn’t know she was pregnant before she gave birth to a baby boy in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor convent in Washington in early October. Amoa had arrived in the United States from Samoa less than a week before delivering the child. She acknowledged as part of a plea deal in February that after giving birth to her son she put a piece of wool clothing over his nose and mouth and applied pressure, smothering him.
On Friday, prosecutor Cynthia Wright praised Amoa’s ‘‘generosity of spirit’’ for wanting to help others and become a nun, but she said Amoa also initially lied, claiming she had found the dead child outside, before acknowledging the boy was hers and had been born alive.
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