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jcm1/06/2009 8:32:40 am PST

This story just gets sicker and more depressing all the time.

Prosecutor: Teen mother of dead baby to be charged as an adult

GRAHAM, Wash. — Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash at a dump site Monday found the body of a baby boy who was allegedly killed and put in a garbage can in Port Angeles.

A 16-year-old girl was arrested Friday for investigation of first-degree murder. Her father, 41-year-old Ronald Last, was arrested for investigation of concealing the birth by disposing of the body. She was being held in juvenile detention for investigation of first- or second-degree murder. Her father was being held at the county jail.

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Port Angeles police wrote that after being born to the teenager early Tuesday, the baby boy was held face down in a toilet by his young mother until he drowned.

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Investigators say Last, who insists he did not know his daughter was pregnant, saw the body in the trash can but didn’t say anything and let garbage collectors take the contents away.

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Law enforcement in Pueblo has been contacted, and investigators have determined that the father of the baby is a man in his 30s and a friend of the teen’s mother.


The girl, her father, and the rapist father of the baby all should go away for a long, long time.