Fact check: Media got story wrong on 90 day sentence for Plan B teen

An 18-year-old woman in rural Nebraska will spend three months in jail for burning and burying the corpse of her unborn child. Though Celeste Burgess aborted the fetus at 30 weeks, she is not serving time because of her late-term abortion but for what she did afterwards.

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Headlines from media outlets covering the teen’s jail sentence paint a different, potentially confusing.

[I’d argue it’s been purposefully confusing. Kudos to Straight Arrow for living up to their name. — Ed]

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