re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

These sorts of hyperbolic reports do not help us in Nebraska with the real issue of keeping abortion legal in this state.

In a case where they are relevant, medical records and social media accounts are routinely obtained as part of a prosecution.

The tweet implies the (then) girl in question was busted from social media posts.

By the way, the push for a special session in the state legislature to ban abortion was defeated today.

Norfolk mother and daughter accused of illegal abortion, burning and burying body (Lincoln Journal-Star, today)

A Norfolk woman is facing five criminal charges — including three felonies — alleging she helped her teenage daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus earlier this year.

Jessica Burgess, 41, pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial in Madison County District Court. Her then-17-year-old daughter Celeste Burgess — who is being tried as an adult — also pleaded not guilty to three charges, including a felony.

And a 22-year-old man accused of helping the two bury the fetus pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor and will be sentenced later this month.

A Norfolk police detective launched his investigation in late April, chasing a tip that Celeste Burgess had miscarried and that she and her mother had buried the body, according to a search warrant affidavit.

The detective obtained her medical records, and determined she’d been more than 23 weeks — or nearly six months — pregnant at the time, and was expected to deliver July 3.