Prosecutors argued that Caston's lack of action to get care for the babies showed that she caused the deaths. And her extensive internet searches for miscarriages and abortion methods before she gave birth demonstrated that she didn't want the babies.
The evidence showed that Caston searched Google for "cheap abortion pills," "free abortion clinic" and "can you cause a miscarriage if you hit yourself in the stomach hard enough?" After she gave birth, Cason researched if you can bury a baby in a back garden.
MISSOURI DEATH ROW INMATE INTRODUCES NEW ALIBI IN QUADRUPLE KILLING
A 28-year-old Missouri woman has been convicted of killing her infant twin babies on Friday. The children died from starvation less than three days after they were born.
Caston told the jury that she had planned to give the babies up for adoption at a doctor's appointment three days after they were born, but by that time, the babies had died after not eating.
"We have two dead babies. She didn’t want them. She didn’t care for them," Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Dittmeier said in closing arguments. "She didn’t even give them a name."
Caston’s public defenders argued that she has an intellectual disability and didn’t understand the risk to the infants.
"I was in shock. I didn’t know what to do," she told the jury.