Pa. mom accused in daughter’s death can’t use battered women’s defense, judge rules

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Pa. mom accused in daughter’s death can’t use battered women’s defense, judge rules
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Samantha Jo Delcamp is accused of knowing her daughter was being abused but did nothing to stop it.

Samantha Jo Delcamp is escorted by Northumberland County sheriff’s deputy after waiving her preliminary hearing regarding charges related to the death of her daughter, Arabella Parker.SUNBURY -- A Northumberland County mother accused in the 2019 death of her three-year-old daughter cannot pursue a battered women’s syndrome defense.

There is no court authority that allows such a defense where the victim is not the aggressor, he wrote. Most of her body landed on it but the back of her head hit the floor and she began to have a seizure, he said. SheDoctors testified at several court procedures about the serious head and other injuries Arabella suffered over time.

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