ANTELOPE VALLEY : Woman Pleads No Contest in Deaths of 2 Infants
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In a case that helped draw attention to the Antelope Valley’s child abuse problems, a woman accused of killing her two infant children has pleaded no-contest to second-degree murder in the deaths.
Sharon F. Conley, 37, of Quartz Hill, and Ronald E. Wesselmann, 40, were arrested in February, 1992, after a dead newborn boy was found inside a trash bag in a dumpster near the couple’s apartment in Quartz Hill.
In the wake of that incident, investigators reopened a 1987 case in which the remains of another infant were found stuffed in a shoe box in the garage of a Lake Los Angeles house the couple had been renting.
Conley was about to stand trial in San Fernando Superior Court in Van Nuys when she entered her no-contest pleas--equivalent to pleading guilty--before Judge Meredith C. Taylor on Wednesday. Sentencing was set for April 13.
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