After leaving her baby to die in a clothes hamper in her parents? home in September, 26-year-old Carmen Rappuhn of Springfield Township was sentenced to 18 to 50 years in jail.
Rappuhn, after being found guilty by a jury during a two-day trial last month, stood as a prisoner before Judge Nanci J. Grant of the Oakland County Circuit Court, Tuesday, May 20.
Robert Larin, Rappuhn’s attorney, read a written statement from his client that said, ‘I am very sorry for what happened. I’ll have to live with this for the rest of my life.?
On Sept. 28, Rappuhn gave birth to a baby boy, Daren Rappuhn, in her parents Norman Road home in Springfield Township, after her hiding her pregnancy from them.
Oakland County Sheriff’s Department deputies and the Springfield Township Fire Department were dispatched to a medical call for a young woman bleeding.
The woman bleeding was Rappuhn, who was transported to Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc for further treatment.
It was determined after examination, she had delivered a baby at approximately 34 weeks into the pregnancy.
She denied this, according to police reports, but told medical professionals she had a miscarriage two months prior and was still bleeding from it.
Springfield Township deputies were notified, went to the home and found the baby boy, deceased, wrapped in a nightgown, and inside a clothes hamper in the middle of a bedroom.
A medical examination determined Daren was born alive, and that traces of cocaine and marijuana were in his blood stream.