Amanda Hein, 26, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has been
charged with murder after admitting to killing her newborn son.
Amanda who gave birth in the bathroom of a busy sports bar, killed
her new born and hid it in the toilet. She was tracked down and arrested after
police traced a blood stain the woman left on the booth where she was sitting,
it was revealed today.
Amanda Catherine Hein was at Starters Pub near Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, watching pay-per-view wrestling with three friends August 17,
when she left and went to the bathroom for about 40 minutes. She returned with
blood on her clothes, but insisted she was fine.
Police say Hein went outside and smoked a cigarette, then
returned to her friends and continued watching
the match.
The next morning, a janitor who checked on the toilet after
complaints that it would not flush, found the child wrapped in a plastic
garbage bag, submerged in the tank behind the toilet seat.
Hein was charged with murder Monday and could face the death
penalty.
The Lehigh Valley Express-Times reports that an autopsy
found that Hein had given birth to a healthy, full-term baby boy. The child
suffocated to death.
Hein said she realized she was pregnant in May or June, but
did not tell anyone. None of her friends who were with her the night she gave
birth knew that she was carrying a child.
They also did not know she had gone into labor on August 17.
That night, Hein and three male friends reserved a booth at
Starters bar to watch the
WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view wrestling match.
Her friends told police she was complaining of back pain and
spasms during the match. When she excused herself, she was gone for so long that
they began to send her text messages.
She had blood on her clothing, but refused to go home until
the match was over.
After the discovery of the child in the toilet, the waiters
at Starters told police they remembered having to clean up blood at one of the
booths on August 17.
Managers at the bar were able to look up who reserved the
booth – which led detectives to Luis Rivera – one of Hein’s friends.
Starts Pub sports bar was crowded with wrestling fans
watching a major pay-per-view match when Hein gave birth in the bathroom. Rivera
led police to Hein
When she was questioned by officers, she admitted that she
had given birth to a live baby and that she had killed him and hid him the
toilet after wrapping him in a plastic bag she took from the bathroom garbage
can.
Because of the age of the child, Hein could be sentenced to
death, if convicted of murder.
Bar owner David Rank said his staff were extremely upset by
the grisly incident. He allowed those who wished to go home, others opted to
stay and Rank opened the pub to customers at 1pm, two hours later than usual.
‘My biggest concern is for my employees, the mother, the
baby,’ said Rank.
‘I just want everyone to say prayers for them.
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