{"id":78986,"date":"2025-12-17T00:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=78986"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:43:57","slug":"murder-staring-us-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/murder-staring-us-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Staring Us In The Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were struck the other day viewing the video of a woman named Keri Mazzuka, 52, in Albany, New York, who was arrested for the 1997 killing of her infant son twenty-seven years after the baby’s corpse was found.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

New DNA techniques led to the arrest<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pray for her.<\/span> That’s one message. Can you imagine the guilt?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The infant had been found swaddled in a blue pillowcase in a flower bed near a statue of Moses in Washington Park in Albany.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

She was an unwed woman in her twenties at the time, and killed the child after giving birth in a bathtub filled with water and cutting the umbilical cord. She admitted hearing the child and feeling his breath before taking the boy (whom police named “Moses”) to the park<\/a><\/span> and dumping him there on the linen she then set afire.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mother<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, heartless.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A medical examiner determined that the baby, who weighed nine pounds and three ounces, had been born alive and healthy, and was less than twelve hours old when it died.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A horror, to be sure. Keri now has two other, grown children but faces a twenty-five year sentence on the charge of second-degree murder and concealment of a crime.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are those<\/span> who might wonder why it wasn’t first-degree murder. The answer might be because New York is a pretty liberal state. Maybe it was a matter of mercy, which one can understand: she was a mixed-up young woman who turned desperate (not to excuse it whatsoever).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But this not the larger issue. [scroll for more:]<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
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