A matter of timing - 

A month earlier and it would have only been human tissue that could have been sold by Planned Parenthood for a few bucks.

//Christina Colantonio, 28, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter, Genesee County District Attorney Lawrence Friedman said.

Police launched an investigation Thursday when an acquaintance visiting Colantiono at her apartment in Batavia, about 45 miles from Buffalo, found the baby’s lifeless body and called 911, Batavia Police Det. Sgt. Todd Crossett said at a news conference Saturday evening.

Investigators believe Colantonio killed the girl “shortly after birth,” about three months ago, Crossett said. Authorities would not say how the baby died, but Friedman said investigators “have enough evidence to come to a conclusion it was intentionally caused.” A medical examiner will determine the infant’s official cause of death. Friedman said the investigation was still ongoing.

Police said Colantonio, who has two other children, lived alone in the apartment. She was arraigned Saturday at Batavia City Court and ordered held without bail.

Colantonio remained jailed Saturday evening and could not be reached for comment. It was unclear whether she had an attorney who could comment on her behalf.

Crossett said the officers who discovered the baby girl’s body were being offered counseling.

“It’s not something you see on a regular basis,” he said. “They are the most vulnerable part of the population.”//

Follower of Darwinian-Socialism had a History of Violence.

This Io-9 post on the Biology professor turned murderess is fascinating in a can't-look-away-from-the-car-wreck kind of way.  Io-9 is interested in clearing Amy Bishop of the charge that D&D unhinged her, but the woman had a history of violence going back to killing her brother and assaulting another woman in an IHOP who had taken the last booster seat:

In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother.


Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to the other woman, demanded the seat and launched into a profanity-laced rant.

When the woman would not give the seat up, Bishop punched her in the head, all the while yelling "I am Dr. Amy Bishop."

Bishop received probation and prosecutors recommended that she be sent to anger management classes, though it is unclear from court documents whether a judge ever sent her there.

The woman, identified in court documents as Michelle Gjika, declined to comment, saying only "It's not something I want to relive."

She also had an advisor who received two pipe bombs after criticizing her work.

And she wanted to build a living computer.