A Texas girl convicted of killing a pregnant girl she knew and kidnapping her unborn daughter, has been sentenced to loss of life, court docket data present.
A Bowie County jury final month discovered Taylor Rene Parker responsible of capital homicide within the fall 2020 slayings of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and her child, after about an hour of deliberations. Parker was additionally convicted in the kidnapping of the child reduce from the sufferer’s womb who later died, court docket data present.
On-line court docket data present jurors delivered the loss of life sentence Wednesday.
Prosecutors had sought the loss of life penalty, though jurors have been tasked with handing down the sentence, with the choice being life in jail with out parole.
Simmons-Hancock’s physique was discovered Oct. 9, 2020, at her residence in New Boston, about 160 miles northeast of Dallas close to the Texas-Oklahoma state line.
In accordance with a possible trigger affidavit, that very same month, Parker informed her boyfriend she was pregnant, held a gender reveal celebration and stated she was going to a hospital in Oklahoma to preregister for labor to be induced.
That very same day, police acquired a 911 name from a lady who reported somebody had killed her daughter, the affidavit reveals. Responding officers discovered Simmons-Hancock, who had been 34 weeks pregnant, with a big reduce alongside her stomach and the child now not in her womb.
The affidavit goes on to learn, Texas state troopers performed a site visitors cease of a automotive that day and located Parker holding a child in her lap and “the umbilical twine was linked to the toddler, which gave the impression to be popping out of the feminine’s pants, as if she gave beginning to the kid,” the affidavit continues.
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“We’re simply so grateful justice has been served in the present day, for not solely our household, our associates, the prosecution workforce, our group,” Jessica Brooks, the sufferer’s mom informed native information outlet KSLA.
Through the listening to, a photograph was proven of Hancock’s physique on the crime scene, the outlet KSLA reported. Prosecutors stated they need to bear in mind her as a mom who died preventing for her child. Earlier within the trial, Hancock’s fingernails have been discovered within the placenta.
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