EASTON, Pennsylvania (AP) A U.S. woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges accusing her of giving birth in a sports bar bathroom, wrapping the newborn in a plastic bag and hiding him in a toilet tank.
Twenty-six-year-old Amanda Hein was ordered to stand trial in Pennsylvania on a criminal homicide count after a preliminary hearing Monday.
A cleaning crew found the baby's body in the toilet on Aug. 19 at Starters Pub in Bethlehem, a town just north of Philadelphia. A coroner concluded the boy was born alive.
Police say they traced blood found in a bar booth to Hein. Investigators say she couldn't give them a reason she allegedly killed the baby except that she was "scared."
A message left for Hein's public defender, Michael Corriere, wasn't immediately returned.
