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A woman from Michigan, Antoinette Briley, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of her newborn twins in 2003 in Cook County, Illinois. The bodies of the twin baby boys were found by a waste management employee, and an autopsy revealed they had been born alive and died of asphyxiation. Despite an initial lack of suspects, a DNA match in 2018 identified Briley as the birth mother. She was arrested in December 2021 and admitted to the murders. The Illinois Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act, enacted shortly after the boys’ deaths, allows parents to relinquish newborns within 30 days without facing criminal charges.
