The jury can only can only convict based on the evidence infront of them. There was no skin left, so nobody can say whether or not it was burned.
I agree. I think it's possible that baby was born alive but unresponsive and she thought it was deceased. I also think it is possible that baby was stillborn. I even think it's possible that baby was born alive and died shortly afterwards due to her inaction and she may have known this and panicked.
There are so many possibilities which (IMO) makes it impossible to ever know for sure what actually happened. Which is why, if I was on this jury, there would be no way I would be returning a guilty verdict. Not in a month of Sundays.
ETA: I would not find her guilty of murder. Abuse of a corpse is a possibility but IMO this is the most she will be found guilty of.
From the interview transcript….
Det. Carter: “Okay…So you see her…she’s in the toilet for a couple of minutes? What did you do with her?”
Skylar: “I put her in the towel.”
Det. Carter: “Okay. Okay. And then what?”
Skylar: “I’d hold her.”
Det. Carter: “Okay”
Skylar: “Maybe hold her too tight.”
Det. Carter: “Do you…feel like she was breathing when you were holding her when you held her too tight? Okay.”
Skylar: “I didn’t…”
Lt. Faine: “When you, um…so can you describe for me, like, taking her out of the toilet? Like. How did you take her out? Because you put her in the towel. How did you take her out of the …
Skylar: “With my hands.”
Lt. Faine: “Well, after your hands, like, do you remember, did you, I mean, are, are you being careful because it’s, it’s a baby? Or do you remember like, where you left her? Did you try to get, like, her, her neck? I. I’m just picturing her headfirst and you’re trying to reach in, or…”
Skylar: “I tried to be careful with both hands.”
Lt. Faine: “Okay. And, and again, we’re, we’re just trying to ask ’cause we, we weren’t there and we’re just trying to picture, you know, exactly…”
Det. Carter: “I just want her to be at rest.”
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Det. Carter: “You said…something really interesting. You said, ‘I think maybe I held her too tight.’ Tell me what that means.”
Skylar: “I, I didn’t think she was breathing and I think I squeezed her too hard.”
Det. Carter: “Okay.”
Skylar is crying.
Det. Carter: “I know. It’s okay.”
Skylar: “And I squeezed her.”
Det. Carter: “It’s okay. You can’t…it’s okay. You were…”
Skylar: “I think I killed her.”
Det. Carter: “Okay.”
Skylar: “You think I killed her on purpose.”
Det. Carter: “I, I…Skylar, no one believes that.”
