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What happened next is a matter of dispute. Peterson has told authorities that he wrapped the 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...
...their colleges. At 5:30 that afternoon, though, Grossberg fainted in her dorm room. She was taken to a hospital, where doctors discovered that she had given birth within the past 12 hours and notified police that a baby might be missing. Grossberg's roommate told the police about Peterson, and they called Gettysburg College. There, a dormitory adviser and a campus security officer approached Peterson, who told them where the baby was. The police found bloody bed linens in each of the couple's dorm rooms, and in Peterson's, a map of Newark and a receipt from...
Over the next few days, police questioned Grossberg and Peterson, then released them to the custody of their parents. But after the autopsy was completed on Saturday, Delaware's attorney general announced that the couple were being charged with first-degree murder and that the state would seek the death penalty (murdering a child under 14 is a capital offense in Delaware). Grossberg surrendered and was held without bail and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation...
...Peterson, though, hid out for a few days with his parents, who are divorced, before turning himself in last Thursday morning. His lawyer, Joseph Hurley, had announced this ahead of time, and a huge crowd of reporters and onlookers greeted Peterson. Someone jeered, "Baby killer!" and Peterson's distraught mother cried, "I want to go with him! I want to go with...