14 DAY TRIAL // A woman from Tennessee has been found guilty of killing her two infant twins in 2011. Lindsey Lowe has been convicted of smothering her newborns on Tuesday, March 19.
The Christian Post writes that 26-year-old Lindsey Lowe has been awarded life in prison for premeditated murder, in the form of two sentences in the deaths of each one of the twins. A jury has also found her guilty of felony murder and child abuse in the 2011 case.
She will be serving 51 years in jail per premeditated death sentence, and the judge may rule for her to serve the sentences consecutively.
An April hearing will determine if she also gets extra jail time for the child abuse charges, in which case 15 to 25 years could be added to the sentence, The Tennessean details.
The Hendersonville resident reportedly became pregnant with another man's children while being engaged. She kept the pregnancy a secret and delivered the babies while she was by herself, on September 12, 2011, in the bathroom in her parents' home.
It took two days for someone to uncover the babies' remains. One of the infants' bodies was seen first, having been wrapped in bed sheets and hidden in a laundry basket. Further investigation revealed the second child's body in the same basket.
During questioning, Lowe suggested that she wanted to keep the birth a secret, and confessed to "maybe" killing her kids by putting a hand their mouths in an attempt to silence them, in a videotaped interrogation.
“Certainly it was a key because she admitted what she had done. [...] It was unsullied, and I believe the truth backed up what her statement was,” Sumner County District Attorney Ray Whitley describes.
“I’m very proud of our jury for making the right decision. [...] If we don’t stand up for little infants, we’re in bad shape as a society,” he notes.