Disgusting

Disgusting. JSOnline's Daywatch reports...

FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 2006, 4:46 p.m.
By Gina Barton

A woman whose newborn daughter died after a home birth into a toilet has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Angela L. Hamilton, 26, formerly of Cudahy, was convicted of two felonies, child neglect causing death and first-degree recklessly endangering safety, after a jury trial in December.

Hamilton, who has since moved to Waukegan, Ill., hid her pregnancy, according testimony during the trial. Testifying in her own defense, Hamilton said she had planned to use the toilet and then take a taxi to the hospital. Instead, she gave birth at the home she shared with her mother.

Hamilton testified that she initially left the baby girl in the water, then touched her daughter lightly. That touch brought Hamilton out of a shocked state, she said. She then cleaned the baby, and after a few more minutes, she and her mother called 911.

But police who interviewed Hamilton shortly after the baby's birth in November 2003 testified that she had confessed to holding the baby underwater for up to a minute.

The baby lived for several days on life support.

Hamilton was sentenced today in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. In addition to the prison term, she must serve six and a half years of supervised release.

The Judge has no sense of decency.

If she had drowned a puppy or a kitten libs and conservatives would unite in outrage and demand they throw the book at her.

But, it's only an unwanted (by her) baby.