NEBRASKA POLICE OBTAINED FACEBOOK MESSAGES ABOUT TEEN'S ALLEGED ABORTION
Seventeen-year-old Celeste Burgess, who is being tried as an adult along with her mother Jessica Burgess, is awaiting trial in Madison County District Court on charges that they broke a Nebraska law banning abortion after 20 weeks.
This marks one of the first instances of a person's Facebook activity being used to incriminate her in a state where abortion access is restricted.
Celeste and her mother were charged in July with allegedly removing, concealing or abandoning a de'd human body and concealing the death of another person after the Norfolk Police Department received a tip claiming Celeste had miscarried in April at 23 weeks of pregnancy and secretly buried the fetus with her mother's help. The case was first reported by the Lincoln Journal Star
While Celeste told police that she had suffered a miscarriage, they continued to investigate, serving Facebook with a search warrant to access Celeste and Jessica's Facebook accounts. They subsequently found messages between the mother and daughter allegedly detailing how Celeste had undergone a self-managed abortion with Jessica's help.
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