Update on the baby found in Hicksville Train Station

I am sometimes amazed at how they catch these people.

Nassau police arrest mom in train station baby death case

(12/15/06) MINEOLA – Nassau County police have arrested a nanny and accused her of murdering her own newborn baby boy and leaving his body in a Hicksville train station trash bin.
Police arrested 34-year-old Erma Stephens, who works as a nanny in Woodbury, at 9:25 p.m. Thursday. Investigators say Stephens smothered the newborn in her Brooklyn apartment, placed the baby in a shoebox, wrapped everything in a white plastic bag and left the boy at the train station on November 27. A commuter later found the child.

According to police, Stephens killed the child to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy from peers. They say surveillance video and information obtained from a store linked to the shoebox led to Stephens’ arrest. She is charged with second-degree murder. The baby, named Nicholas Hope by the AMT Children of Hope Foundation, was buried last week.

Message edited 12/16/2006 8:23:40 AM.

Re: Update on the baby found in Hicksville Train Station

omg

i find it DISGUSTING that the mother is a 34 yr old woman. You would think a 34 yr old woman has the common sense to take advantage of the safe haven laws. She could left that child with any police station, fire house, hospital, etc...but instead, she chose to kill him.

I hope she rots.

eta: ESPECIALLY because taking care of children is her livelihood! I can't believe people somtimes.

Message edited 12/16/2006 8:34:48 AM.

Re: Update on the baby found in Hicksville Train Station

I saw this in the news last night and it saddend me so much!!

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Sickening. And here many of us on this board are, desperately trying to conceive. I don't get it. Why dont they turn to a church, etc.

Re: Update on the baby found in Hicksville Train Station

Re: Update on the baby found in Hicksville Train Station