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Kenisha Berry

By Pam Easton The Associated Press
BEAUMONT - A couple collecting aluminum cans found the dead newborn. He was in a black plastic bag tossed in a trash bin in the parking lot of a Beaumont apartment building. Duct tape was stretched across his mouth and belted his tiny arms to his body. Authorities later learned he still had milk in his stomach.
Kenisha Berry is now on death row for killing her newborn son, duct taping his mouth and arms, and placing him in a dumpster in 1998. Berry has also admitted abandoning her newborn daughter, five years after killing her newborn son. Parris Berry in an ant covered ditch, Parris survived more than one hundred ant bites.
After the second baby was found, authorities received several tips that Berry might be the girl's mother. Jefferson County Sheriff's detective Debbie Beavers went to the modest one-story home of Berry's mother, Ruby Sherman, where she left her business card. Berry later called the detective and on June 12 came to the sheriff's department where she acknowledged abandoning her daughter,Beavers said Child Protective Services later told her that Berry was the mother of several children and had hidden some of her pregnancies. She asked Berry to submit a DNA sample, and analysis determined she was the boy's mother.

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