A Florida mother was sentenced to 14 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her newborn daughter in 2018.
Arya Singh, 30, was charged with second-degree murder in the high-profile case of “Baby June,” a newborn found floating in the Boynton Beach inlet in 2018.
Singh pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child and abuse of a dead human body.
According to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office around 1:20 pm on June 1, 2018, an off-duty Boynton Beach Firefighter was boating on the ocean side of the Boynton Beach Inlet when he saw what appeared to be a body floating.
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Upon getting a closer look he did in fact confirm it was a body of a female infant. Age and how long the body was in the water is unknown at the time.
Detectives from the Special Victims Unit were on scene investigating further.
The female infant was taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the cause of death and possible identification. She was no more than 14 days old.
Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement, “Ms. Singh went to a hotel room alone and gave birth to a child. As a result of her actions or inactions, the baby died. Ms. Singh never called 911, sought medical treatment, asked for help for her child, and never dropped the baby off at a fire station.”
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“As the child’s mother, under the circumstances she placed herself in, she was the only person who could have saved that child’s life. Instead she disposed of her baby in the Boynton Inlet, in the hopes no one would know what she had done. There must be a consequence for that,” said Aronberg.
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