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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—An Alaska woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the death of her newborn, whose decomposing body was discovered in her parents’ Colorado home last year.
Twenty-four-year-old Morgan Hite of Wasilla, Alaska, pleaded guilty in January to child abuse resulting in death. Prosecutors dropped several other charges including first-degree murder in exchange for that plea.
Hite was accused of giving birth to a boy, later named Gabriel, at a friend’s Grand Junction home in February 2008. Prosecutors say she then put the boy in a bag, walked to her parents’ home and left the bag in a closet.
Hite’s parents found the boy’s decomposing body in April.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
