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OGDEN, Utah — I promise you that I am not looking for these dead\abused kid stories this morning, but I got one more. While in court before a judge answering to murder charges, 27-year-old Jewell Hendricks admitted she smothered her infant son. “Are you doing it because you are, in fact, guilty?â€￾ Second District Court Judge Michael DiRida asked Hendricks.*â€￾Yes, your honor,â€￾ Hendricks said, sobbing. Prosecutors say that Hendricks felt that the stress of being the new mother of premature twins could be substantially alleviated if she were short one kid. She liked 2-month-old Robert the least, so in January 2010, she covered his crying face with a sleeping bag and bear-hugged him until he stopped, then reportedly sat on his body for several hours. Robert would die from blunt force trauma to the head and smothering. Court documents stated Robert had a skull fracture, bruising on the head and arms, a broken collarbone and bleeding of the eye. As part of Hendricks’ plea deal, prosecutors dropped child abuse charges and will only recommend she serve 15 years in prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9 where her attorney plans on having a*psychologist*testify that Hendricks has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. Which means her husband must have the mental capacity of an 8-year-old as he was outside of the courtroom telling reporters that Robert’s death was an accident. “I was there and I know how it happened,â€￾ Phil said. “It wasn’t her fault. It was nobody’s fault. Accidents do happen.â€￾ The Hendricks’s surviving son was given up for adoption and hopefully finds his way into the arms of a woman who doesn’t want to love him and squeeze him ’til he don’t move no more.
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OGDEN — Judge Michael DiReda told Jewell Hendricks he knows first-hand how challenging it can be to be a parent to twins.

He and his wife literally sobbed together after long stretches without sleep, wondering how they could raise the children.

But there was no explanation, he said Friday, for the "poor decision" Hendricks made to smother one of her infant, twin sons to death in a sleeping bag on Jan. 24, 2010.

"The devastation you have caused your family, yourself and your surviving child, Daniel ... It's incomprehensible," the 2nd District judge said.

Calling it a case full of "profound sorrow," DiReda ordered the 27-year-old to serve 15 years to life in prison for murder, a first-degree felony. The judge said he can't imagine one of his children without the other and questioned the impact on the surviving twin when he realizes what happened.

"This day, I don't doubt that you will judge yourself more harshly than anyone in this court, including me," DiReda told Hendricks, who was quietly crying. "I hope, with time, you will find some measure of forgiveness."

Hendricks' attorney, Ryan Bushell, said his client is "25 going on 14" mentally and was struggling with post-partum depression and the strain of raising infants sons when she made the decision to put her 2-month-old son, Robert, in a sleeping bag and smother him.

"Two colicky babies with lack of sleep, lack of help ... One night it all came down to, 'I can't do this' and something inside of her snapped," Bushell said. "She made a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life. ... She did it in a desperate move to get him to stop crying."

Bushell and a number of Hendricks' family members told the judge that she is not a heartless killer, but someone who is attentive and sweet.

"She's not cold-hearted," said Philip Hendricks, the woman's husband and father of the twins. "She inspired people. She inspired me to graduate high school. ... Without her, I wouldn't be here."

June Morgan, who raised Jewell Hendricks, said the woman had a hard life, losing her mother at a young age, suffering physical and sexual abuse and receiving little guidance on how to parent.

"Jewell didn't learn how to be a mother," Morgan said. "But she tried. We adore her. We hate what happened, but it did happen."

Jewell Hendricks thanked Bushell and the judge and told DiReda she would have to live with her decision her entire life. "Things do go wrong, people do make mistakes and we do learn from them," she said.

Bushell pointed out that, from the beginning, Hendricks admitted to what she had done and took responsibility for it. She opted against going to trial, because she wanted to own up to her actions.

Prosecutor Dean Saunders said he understands Hendricks was struggling, but that didn't change the fact that she killed a young child.

"We realize she had some mental health issues, but that doesn't excuse what she did," Saunders said. "This was a person who was functioning, who knew right from wrong. I'm not saying she was a cold-blooded killer, but this was a conscious decision on her part."

In exchange for Hendricks' guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to write a letter to the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole asking that Hendricks serve 15 years in prison. DiReda said he will also write a letter asking that she be given credit for the 500-plus days she has been in jail awaiting a resolution in the case.

Saunders said the other twin, Daniel, was taken into foster care following Robert's death and has since been adopted. Both Jewell and Philip Hendricks relinquished their parental rights to the child.

Last year, a detective testified that Hendricks confessed to squeezing her son hard enough to break his collar bone, then rolled his body into a sleeping bag and laid on top of him to make him stop crying. "She said having twins was too much to handle and explained that she loved Daniel more … and it was her intent to have a better life and kill Robert," Ogden police detective Brian Eynon testified.

But Bushell said Friday that was not true and his client never loved one twin more than the other.

"I loved (Robert) no matter what," Hendricks said in court.

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[doublepost=1510459602,1510459568][/doublepost]Got her 15 years
 
"The devastation you have caused your family, yourself and your surviving child, Daniel ... It's incomprehensible,"

Family, yes. The surviving twin, undoubtedly. But herself? She killed a kid based on 'which one she liked the least'? The actual fuck, they were your *children*.

... and for the record, I believe the report and the detective more than her lawyer.

Lock it up, throw away the key.
 
They both need to be Spade
This is so fucking wrong
So glad the other baby is out of their hands
But shit ....IQ of a eight yr old
Then Don't let these half wits have kids
 
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