Teen Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter

A young woman charged along with her high school sweetheart with murdering their newborn at a motel fell sobbing into her mother’s arms before pleading guilty to manslaughter. Amy Grossberg, 19, entered the plea in a Wilmington court a month after her boyfriend, Brian Peterson, 19, turned against her. Grossberg and Peterson could each get up to 2 1/2 years. Both were initially charged with first-degree murder and prosecutors said they might seek the death penalty after their baby was found in November 1996 in a trash bin behind the motel in Newark, where Grossberg had given birth. The state medical examiner’s office said the boy died of skull fractures caused by blows and shaking.