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Trial rescheduled for woman accused of throwing baby into lake

by WWLTV.com

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM

Updated Monday, Nov 30 at 12:49 PM

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METAIRIE, La – The trial for the woman who confessed to throwing her baby into Lake Ponchartrain has been postponed until March.

Ciara Craig, 21, was scheduled to appear in court Monday, but instead motions were scheduled for Jan. 29. The second-degree murder trial is now supposed to begin March 15.

At first Craig was arrested on first-degree murder charges, but a grand jury later indicted her with second-degree murder.

Police say Craig told them she was trying to hide her pregnancy from her parents and considered an abortion, but was too far along.

Louisiana does have a safe-haven law that allows a parent to bring a baby less than 31 days old to a hospital, clinic, fire or police station or any other emergency facility with no questions asked. Craig, along with her parents, turned herself into police back in February and confessed to the crime.

"She described as placing the child in the lake, she had her hand on the baby's chest and said she could feel the heart beating at that point,” said Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway.
 

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bluerunner said on November 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM

If she is confessed why is there going to be a trial? Hang her and bring in the next contestant!

commentstrue said on December 1, 2009 at 9:11 AM

All of a sudden she becomes the victim and the child is not important. She did confess when this story first come out. Don't know why there is a delay unless it is a lawyer trick. Criminals in NO get away with so many crimes and they are never given the proper punishment. There always seems to be some circumstances that caused them to act the way they did so sympathy is engaged and they get off with no punishment or light punishment. What a sad joke.

wevwev said on December 6, 2009 at 2:59 AM

I believe we as a society failed this young woman. We do not know what she was told when she asked to have an abortion. We do not know if she was steered away from that choice by someone whom she thought she could trust and who betrayed her by delaying, or steering her thinking another way. I believe access to abortion -- which is legal -- has been eroded in our state by people who oppose a woman's right to choose for herself. We do not even know that this woman wasn't raped, pressured, coerced, drugged or plied with alcohol. Perhaps that one time was nothing like we imagine it was. Even if she wanted to find out what sex was like, we still don't know that she consented. She didn't want a baby -- and nobody listened to her. I do not believe she knew about the safe haven law. The fact is, nobody helped her. Why do we want to force women who do not want a child to have one. It really doesn't turn out well, even when the child lives. Perhaps especially when the child lives.