An 18-year-old Nebraska woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for burning and burying a fetus after she took medication from her mother to end her pregnancy. Celeste Burgess was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to concealing or abandoning a dead body. Police found the burned fetus, estimated to be 29 weeks into gestation, buried in a field north of Norfolk. Nebraska law at the time prohibited abortion beyond 20 weeks. Her mother, 42-year-old Jessica Burgess, pleaded guilty this month to giving her then-17-year-old daughter pills for an illegal abortion and helping dispose of the remains.
