Criminal
Mar. 10, 2021
Woman accused of murder in meth stillbirth case sent to treatment center
Over the objection of a probation officer and comments from the prosecutor that the woman has a poor record of rehabilitation, Kings County Judge Robert S. Burns granted her motion to be released to a residential treatment program ahead of her trial, which begins next month.
Nearly three months after a Kings County Superior Court judge held a woman must stand trial on murder charges stemming from the stillbirth of her baby, who had methamphetamine in his system, defendant Chelsea Becker will be released to a drug-treatment center while her attorneys argue a pregnant women can’t be prosecuted for killing her fetus.
Over the objection of a probation officer and comments from the prosecutor that Becker has...
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