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...pounds, two ounces; 20 inches long. Ordinarily, those figures would be a source of joy to new parents, instantly memorized and endlessly repeated. But the size of the child born to Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. will not be engraved on any birth announcements. In this case, the thought the numbers suggest is anything but joyful: Six pounds, two ounces; 20 inches long--what a tiny person to have been killed...
...Baby Boy Grossberg, as he is being called, was born at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Room 220 of the Comfort Inn, a motel in Newark, Delaware. Earlier that night, Grossberg, 18, a freshman at the University of Delaware, had called her boyfriend Peterson, also 18, and told him that she was going into labor. Peterson then drove from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he is a freshman, to meet Grossberg. They went to the motel, and she gave birth...
...infant in a garbage bag and threw it in the motel's Dumpster. He says the baby was alive. But the autopsy reveals that the boy died from multiple skull fractures with injury to the brain "due to blunt force head trauma and shaking." The implication is that Grossberg and Peterson did not merely abandon the child but beat it and killed it. Delaware has charged the youths with murder. If they are found guilty, they could be executed...
Nothing in the lives of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson explains how they could have brought such tragedy on themselves. Both from affluent families, they lived in prosperous New Jersey suburbs and so would not have faced a desperate economic predicament if they had a child. Their material well-being aside, they were also apparently happy, successful, likable kids. Amy was a talented artist and worked at a ymca camp last summer--"a dream daughter," her lawyer said. Brian was co-captain of the high school soccer team and on the varsity golf team. "He was popular...
...providing job opportunities in service industries. Four years ago, accountant Greg Smith, 36, lost his $55,000-a-year position as an audit manager for a food-service firm that trimmed its payroll. After a succession of part-time work and other jobs, Smith joined the consulting firm Grossberg Co. in Maryland last summer as an auditor who sniffs out financial fraud for clients who have pared back their own accounting departments. Today Smith figures that between his salary and his cut of hourly billings, he has nearly doubled his old income. Because of downsizing, he says...