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Waco Teen Mom Gets 10 Years Added To Prison Term

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WACO (AP) — A teen mom has been sentenced to more prison time for repeatedly trying to smother her infant son.

Shantaniqua Nykole Scott pleaded guilty Monday in Waco to two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Prosecutors say her hand was a deadly weapon because she placed it over her baby’s nose and mouth.

He survived and Scott, now 19, later gave up custody. In the plea deal, prosecutors dropped two counts of endangering a child.

Scott was sentenced to 10 years in prison. That’s in addition to a 25-year sentence for Scott’s injury to a child conviction earlier this year in Fort Worth.

After trying to smother her baby in Waco, she did it again at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth — but was caught on hospital surveillance video.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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  • Sharon Landrum

    if she did not want the baby all she had to do was go to a firestation or hospital and hand the baby over. No excuse for her behavior, maybe someone in prison will do the same to her and let her know the fear her baby felt.

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  • Karman

    She shouldnt be allowed to be anywhere around a kid ever again. Child Protective Services comes in and take kids from people who are really trying to raise there kids and you allow this nut to smother her child not once but twice. WoW!

  • Ms. M

    Women who commit these types of crimes should be sterilized.

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  • Julio G

    Women who commit these types of crimes should be sterilized….after lethal injection.

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