A mother’s story: Baby in septic tank

Forty-year-old Marilyn Severin attempted to abort her baby three times by using the drug Cytotec and it was only on the third attempt when she was more than six months pregnant that the baby boy was expelled.

It was early on a rainy morning when it happened and the baby was born dead. Severin said while it would have better to dispose of it in a “better way,” because of the rain she decided to throw it into the septic tank in her Albouystown yard but did “not expect it to float up back.”

The baby was later discovered and the police later held Severin and locked her up for five days before a post mortem was performed on the body, and the cause of death was ruled as undetermined. This resulted in the