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By Ken Maguire, Associated Press Writer | April 11, 2006
BOSTON --Drunk and enraged at being kicked out of her childhood friend's apartment, Natalie Rodriguez snatched her friend's 9-month-old baby from his crib, slit his throat and let him bleed to death in a snowbank.
On Tuesday, 23-year-old Rodriguez tearfully apologized as she entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder and kidnapping charges that will keep her in prison for at least another 26 years for the December 2002 slaying of Xavier Antonio Miranda.
One month before the slaying, Miranda's family took in Rodriguez and her then-4-year-old son in their three-bedroom Chelsea apartment after Rodriguez lost her job at a Social Security office and was kicked out her family home.
But Rodriguez frequently drank, was belligerent, and didn't pay rent. The Miranda family told her to move out. Her deadline was the day she killed the baby.
Rodriguez admitted she silently lifted Xavier out of his crib at 3 a.m., picked up a knife from the kitchen, placed him face down in a snowbank in a neighbor's driveway, and slashed his throat. She then hid the boy's body under a trash can in the driveway. more at link:http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma..._guilty_to_fatally_slashing_baby_for_revenge/
BOSTON --Drunk and enraged at being kicked out of her childhood friend's apartment, Natalie Rodriguez snatched her friend's 9-month-old baby from his crib, slit his throat and let him bleed to death in a snowbank.
On Tuesday, 23-year-old Rodriguez tearfully apologized as she entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder and kidnapping charges that will keep her in prison for at least another 26 years for the December 2002 slaying of Xavier Antonio Miranda.
One month before the slaying, Miranda's family took in Rodriguez and her then-4-year-old son in their three-bedroom Chelsea apartment after Rodriguez lost her job at a Social Security office and was kicked out her family home.
But Rodriguez frequently drank, was belligerent, and didn't pay rent. The Miranda family told her to move out. Her deadline was the day she killed the baby.
Rodriguez admitted she silently lifted Xavier out of his crib at 3 a.m., picked up a knife from the kitchen, placed him face down in a snowbank in a neighbor's driveway, and slashed his throat. She then hid the boy's body under a trash can in the driveway. more at link:http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma..._guilty_to_fatally_slashing_baby_for_revenge/