Nebraska teen mom's chilling confession after stabbing newborn and dumping body in dog food bag

In a heinous admission to her parents , a Nebraska teenager said she killed her newborn baby, telling them that the baby " was dead " and that "she killed it ," according to court documents.

The 17-year-old was charged as an adult in the heinous case that saw her newborn son's throat cut and him stabbed to death before he was placed inside a dog food bag under clothes in a bedroom closet at the family's home. Chloe Coplen-Anderson now faces up to life in prison for the murder after pleading no contest to second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement on Tuesday.

Prosecutors reportedly aren't seeking the full penalty for her, however. Nevertheless, Coplen-Anderson faces at least 20 years in prison for the murder, meaning she won't get out until at least her late 30s.

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Coplen-Anderson's sentencing is slated to occur on Oct. 15, the Star-Herald reported. Details first emerged about the gruesome murder last year, when Coplen-Anderson was just 16.

Initially, Coplen-Anderson was charged with first-degree murder, but the aforementioned plea agreement saw her charges downgraded to second-degree murder. The difference, in Nebraska, is that first-degree murder is premeditated, while second-degree murder is still the intentional death of a person but without the premeditation.

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Sheridan County Attorney Jamian Simmons told Law&Crime that a felony count of child abuse with a deadly weapon — in this case, a knife — was dropped against Coplen-Anderson, too, as part of the plea agreement.

The Gordon police responded to the home of the teen's parents on Nov. 6, 2023, and found what was described by Law&Crime as a "horrific, blood-covered scene" in the girl's bedroom. Inside the closet, covered with clothes, was an empty plastic dog food bag in a trash can that contained the newborn's desecrated remains. The defendant had reportedly been out at a store shortly after the murder took place.

Coplen-Anderson's father reportedly believed the newborn had been a stillborn child. But her mother reportedly shouted to a responding officer during the initial police all that she believed Coplen-Anderson had "hurt him," referring to the baby, and that "you can see the marks."

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It wasn't clear at that time whether the baby's body was discovered yet. When it was, the boy was found with multiple stab wounds and a cut throat. Coplen-Anderson's parents reportedly noticed something wrong earlier in the day when their daughter grabbed a knife from a drawer in the kitchen.

After Coplen-Anderson got back from the store, her mother reportedly confronted her about the knife, and Coplen-Anderson admitted that the baby "was dead" and that "she killed it," the mother told the police, according to the Star-Herald. The sentencing hearing in Coplen-Anderson's case will determine her fate in October.