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Teenage Mother Accused Of Killing, Burying Baby

HOLT, Calif. (CBS13) - A teenage mother is being accused of killing her own daughter and burying her body in her backyard.
   
The news comes out of the small, agricultural town of Holt, just west of Stockton.

Deputies say the 17-year-old never told her parents about her pregnancy.  Detectives believe she was six months pregnant when she gave birth inside her bathroom.

They say the teen then killed her newborn daughter, put her body in a bag, and buried her.

Police will wait for the autopsy results to determine when the baby was born.

The mother is in juvenile hall and could be charged with murder as an adult.

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