Long Island College Student Suffocated Newborn Baby: Police

A Long Island woman faces a murder charge accusing her of suffocating her newborn baby and then stuffing the body into a plastic bag.

Nassau County police were called to the Glen Head home of 20-year-old Sharon Seudat on Thursday after her mother and brother heard screaming and found her bleeding profusely in her bedroom, said Detective Capt. John Azzata.

There was no sign of a baby in the house at the time, police said.

A medical examination revealed that Seudat had given birth, Azzata said. Seudat, who hid the pregnancy from her parents, initially denied giving birth.

Investigators found the baby's lifeless body in a black plastic bag on a back deck at the home. The child was born alive and was suffocated, Azzata said.

Seudat is a student at Nassau Community College and worked part-time at a car wash, police said. The father of the baby was not aware Seudat was pregnant and had not been in contact with Seudat for awhile, police said.

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