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US mother pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills and burying fetus

Celeste Burgess, the daughter, now 18, was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty in May to removing, concealing or abandoning a dead body
Celeste Burgess, the daughter, now 18, was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty in May to removing, concealing or abandoning a dead body Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

A Nebraska mother has pleaded guilty to giving her 17-year-old daughter pills for an illegal abortion last year and helping to burn and bury the fetus.

Under a plea agreement, Jessica Burgess, 42, of Norfolk, admitted to providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, false reporting and tampering with human skeletal remains. Charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dismissed.

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