Student Who Killed Her Newborn in ’96 Is Freed
A college student convicted of killing her newborn son was released from prison Wednesday after serving 22 months of a 2 1/2-year sentence.
Amy Grossberg, 21, and her onetime high school sweetheart Brian Peterson pleaded guilty in 1998 to manslaughter in the 1996 death of their baby, whose body was found in a motel trash bin. Both faced a death sentence on the original charges of first-degree murder.
Peterson was released from Webb Correctional Facility near Wilmington in January after serving 20 months of a two-year sentence.
Peterson and Grossberg, both of Wyckoff, N.J., have been estranged since they were arrested and charged.
Grossberg didn’t speak as she walked out of the Delores Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution near New Castle on Wednesday morning, got into her parents’ car and was driven away.
The teenagers delivered a 6-pound, 2-ounce boy Nov. 12, 1996, at a motel in Newark, Del., not far from the University of Delaware, where Grossberg was a freshman.
Court documents said Peterson had claimed that the baby was stillborn.
Delaware’s medical examiner said the baby died from blunt force trauma that left three distinct skull fractures and caused bleeding in the brain.
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