NEW YORK POST
The Nebraska teen who underwent an illegal, late-term abortion and tried to dispose of the fetus has been sentenced to three months behind bars.
Celeste Burgess, 19, of Norfolk, was hit with a 90-day sentence and two years’ probation at Madison County District Court on Thursday, News Channel Nebraska Central reported.
Her sentence may be reduced to closer to 50 days “due to the possibility of good time,” Andrew Nelson of Courthouse News said.
Burgess pleaded guilty in May to removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead body.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors removed two misdemeanors from her charges, News Channel Nebraska Central said.
She faced up to two years in prison.
The teen and her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, were charged with multiple felonies last August for attempting to carry out an illegal late-term home abortion and then trying to burn and bury the fetus.
Norfolk police were initially tipped off in April 2022 that Celeste had given birth to a stillborn baby in a bathtub, court documents said at the time.
Burgess, who was only 17 at the time of the alleged incident, later told investigators that she had a miscarriage and disposed of the fetus with her mother’s help.
