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"Newborn Jane" PORTELLOS - Hours old (2008) - Plymouth MI
by TomTerrific0420 Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:57 pm
Jury selection is scheduled this morning in the first-degree murder and child abuse trial in Wayne County Circuit Court of a Plymouth Township woman charged with smothering her newborn infant daughter in 2008.
Emily Portellos, 30, gave birth alone in her bedroom and the child was found in a wastebasket after Portellos was taken to the hospital.
In pretrial hearings, Judge Daniel Ryan ruled prosecutors can use police testimony that Portellos agreed with a scenario suggested by a detective that she suffocated the baby to keep her mother from hearing the cries.
Portellos allegedly agreed with the detective while being questioned in a recovery area after surgery under full anesthesia.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Portellos faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
Emily Portellos, 30, gave birth alone in her bedroom and the child was found in a wastebasket after Portellos was taken to the hospital.
In pretrial hearings, Judge Daniel Ryan ruled prosecutors can use police testimony that Portellos agreed with a scenario suggested by a detective that she suffocated the baby to keep her mother from hearing the cries.
Portellos allegedly agreed with the detective while being questioned in a recovery area after surgery under full anesthesia.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Portellos faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
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Re: "Newborn Jane" PORTELLOS - Hours old (2008) - Plymouth MI
by TomTerrific0420 Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:50 pm
A Wayne County Circuit Court jury deliberated all morning today without reaching a decision in the first-degree murder trial of Emily Portellos.
The jury, which deliberated briefly Friday after a two-week trial before Judge Daniel Ryan, met for three hours this morning, to consider whether Portellos, 30, murdered her 7-pound newborn daughter in October 2008.
Prosecutors contend the child was killed to avoid the shame and disgrace of an unwed birth within the conservative Greek Orthodox community.
But defense attorneys argued that the baby died of medical complications and bleeding from an unclamped umbilical cord in the unattended breech birth in Portellos' Plymouth Township bedroom.
The jurors, in addition to first-degree murder charges, can consider second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges.
The jury, which deliberated briefly Friday after a two-week trial before Judge Daniel Ryan, met for three hours this morning, to consider whether Portellos, 30, murdered her 7-pound newborn daughter in October 2008.
Prosecutors contend the child was killed to avoid the shame and disgrace of an unwed birth within the conservative Greek Orthodox community.
But defense attorneys argued that the baby died of medical complications and bleeding from an unclamped umbilical cord in the unattended breech birth in Portellos' Plymouth Township bedroom.
The jurors, in addition to first-degree murder charges, can consider second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges.
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Re: "Newborn Jane" PORTELLOS - Hours old (2008) - Plymouth MI
by ladibug Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:41 pm
I'm not sure why this is in "missing" but the mother has been sentenced.
October 29, 2010
A Wayne County judge has sentenced a woman to 10 to 20 years in prison for smothering her newborn baby to help conceal her unwed pregnancy.
A jury earlier convicted 30-year-old Emily Portellos of second-degree murder and child abuse in the October 2008 death of her daughter. Portellos was sentenced Wednesday.
Police found the newborn in a trash bag in her Plymouth Township home, about 20 miles west of Detroit.
Prosecutors say Portellos kept her pregnancy a secret and smothered the baby to avoid the shame of being an unwed mother.
The defense argued that the death was the outcome of an unrecognized pregnancy and the bleeding of an unclamped umbilical cord. However it was stated that the child was suffocated or smothered because Portellos feared shame in the Greek Orthodox community.
Defense attorney and family friend Demetra Arapakis Christos told Ryan that Weingarden tried: “to hijack my religion and my culture and brand us into some sort of freakish cult.”
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2010/10/29/greek-american-sentanced-to-prison-for-smothering-infant/
October 29, 2010
A Wayne County judge has sentenced a woman to 10 to 20 years in prison for smothering her newborn baby to help conceal her unwed pregnancy.
A jury earlier convicted 30-year-old Emily Portellos of second-degree murder and child abuse in the October 2008 death of her daughter. Portellos was sentenced Wednesday.
Police found the newborn in a trash bag in her Plymouth Township home, about 20 miles west of Detroit.
Prosecutors say Portellos kept her pregnancy a secret and smothered the baby to avoid the shame of being an unwed mother.
The defense argued that the death was the outcome of an unrecognized pregnancy and the bleeding of an unclamped umbilical cord. However it was stated that the child was suffocated or smothered because Portellos feared shame in the Greek Orthodox community.
Defense attorney and family friend Demetra Arapakis Christos told Ryan that Weingarden tried: “to hijack my religion and my culture and brand us into some sort of freakish cult.”
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2010/10/29/greek-american-sentanced-to-prison-for-smothering-infant/
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