A state of New York is accused of killing his 14-year-old girlfriend because she told him she was pregnant and he “wanted nothing to do with her baby,” said prosecutors.
The teenager, now 17, was accused of second-degree murder more than two years after his girlfriend, Samantha Humphrey, was accused of second-degree murder, according to an indictment on Wednesday from the Mohawk river.
Humphrey, from Schenectady, was missing for three months when she was dumped in the river after being strangled for the first time.
The charged teenager – who was not identified otherwise because of his age – had admitted that she was with her that night and had a fight, Humphrey’s mother Jaclyn told CBS6 At that time.
“We believe that Samantha thought she was pregnant and that this boyfriend was once the father,” said Schenectady County District Attorney Robert M. Carney on Wednesday a press conference.
“He wanted nothing to do with her baby and insisted she was gone,” said the DA.
The teenager was accused of theft and the second -degree murder of Humphrey, shows the indictment.
Because the suspect is youth, he is confronted with a maximum punishment of 15 years to life, less than 25 years to life with which he is confronted as an adult.
He did not argue on Wednesday in the Schenectady County Court and was sent back to a youth prison center. The process will probably not start until next year, said the DA’s office.
Humphrey was last seen alive on November 25, 2022, with a black and pink swollen jacket, a jeans with a bell bottom and Tan Timberland boots.
Her mobile and a jacket that matched the description of the person she wore in the night she disappeared were discovered in the first week that she was missing.
