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    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) ? The attorney representing a woman charged with drowning her newborn grandson told the jury his client never harmed the child and the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

    In fact, said attorney David A. Torres, the baby may have already died by the time Beant Dhillon entered the bathroom of the family?s southwest Bakersfield home where her daughter gave birth.

    The prosecution based its case on Dhillon?s confession, Torres said in his closing argument Tuesday, but he said Dhillon falsely admitted to killing the baby to protect the rest of her family. Instead of focusing on Dhillon?s statement, Torres told the jury to consider the motives of Dhillon?s daughter and the baby?s father.

    Those two kept the pregnancy a secret for as long as they could. Torres said it?s unknown what they planned to do with the baby if they could have prevented others in the family from finding out.

    When all factors are considered, Dhillon should be acquitted, Torres said.

    ?This case reeks, drips with reasonable doubt, and there?s absolutely no way Beant Dhillon can be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt,? he told the jury.

    Both sides have finished their closing arguments and the jury is expected to be handed the case this afternoon.

    Prosecutor John Allen has argued the evidence ? including Dhillon?s recorded confession to police detectives ? makes it clear she drowned her grandson to avoid the shame her teen daughter?s pregnancy would bring the family in the Sikh community. She then buried the body.

    ?People don?t usually conceal a child in the backyard of their suburban family homes unless there was foul play,? Allen said during his rebuttal argument.

    Torres said there are a number of variables to consider in this case, including Dhillon?s upbringing in a traditional home in India, the years of abuse she experienced and her subservience to her husband.

    The prosecution has argued the case is actually very simple. The evidence clearly and obviously shows Dhillon killed the baby, Allen said.

    Why did Dhillon confess? Her conscience got to her when detectives pressed her to tell the truth about what happened to the baby, Allen told the jury.

    Dhillon testified she gave a false confession to protect her husband and nephew from getting in trouble. She said the two men, who were in the country illegally, buried the body in the family?s southwest Bakersfield backyard after the child died soon after birth. The defense has argued Dhillon never harmed the child and said the baby may have died as a result of birth complications or bled to death because his umbilical cord wasn?t tied off after being severed.

    Dhillon, 45, faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and the two assault charges filed against her. One assault charge was filed in connection with the baby?s death, the other for failing to get her daughter medical care.

    Torres asked the jury to acquit Dhillon of murder and an assault charge filed in connection with the baby?s death, but conceded she should be found guilty of a misdemeanor for failing to take her daughter to a doctor after she gave birth.

    In testimony given over three days, Dhillon, who worked as a certified nursing assistant, said she did not call 911 because her husband, whom she described as controlling and abusive, forbid it. She said she was afraid of him after suffering years of physical, mental and verbal abuse.

    The daughter was 15 when she gave birth Nov. 12, 2018, in a bathroom at the family?s house on Shining Crag Avenue. She testified she kept the pregnancy a secret from everyone except the baby?s father, a cousin she lived with who was in his 20s.

    The daughter testified the cousin, Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann, told her the baby had been put up for adoption. She reported the pregnancy 3 1/2 months later after an argument with her father in which he indicated the baby had been buried in the backyard.

    Police exhumed the body Feb. 26, 2019, and arrested Dhillon and her husband, Jagsir Singh. The 47-year-old Singh later posted bond on a charge of being an accessory to murder and hanged himself in a closet.

    Dhillon called Mann when police showed up at their house. He has not been found.

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    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — When the door swung open, Beant Dhillon was met with an astonishing sight.

    Her 15-year-old daughter lay on the blood-covered bathroom floor, having given birth minutes earlier. Dhillon hadn’t even known she was pregnant.

    The daughter, weak and lightheaded, was led to another room while Dhillon was left alone with her newborn grandson. She began thinking about what others in Bakersfield’s considerable Sikh community would say about her daughter’s pregnancy, and the possible shame it would bring to the family.

    In those moments, Dhillon decided on a horrifying course of action, prosecutors said. She took her grandson, placed him face down in several inches of water in the bathtub and watched him drown. Then she buried him in the backyard of her southwest Bakersfield home.

    On Friday, Dhillon , 45, was sentenced to 25 years to life, plus four years. She sat with her head bowed most of the hearing, dressed in brown jail-issued clothing and wearing a yellow head covering, plus a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

    A jury convicted Dhillon in December of first-degree murder and two assault charges, one filed in connection with the baby’s death on Nov. 12, 2018, the other for failing to get her daughter medical care after the birth.

    Before sentencing, Dhillon’s daughter and teen son addressed the court, both saying they love their mother and have remained in touch with her since her arrest. The daughter said the family needs her.

    Defense attorney David A. Torres asked Judge Kenneth C. Twisselman II to consider sentencing Dhillon to probation by finding her predicament to be an “unusual case” under state law, where justice would best be served with a probationary term.

    Torres argued Dhillon is also a victim, suffering years of abuse at the hands of her husband, who terrorized the entire family. Torres said he struggled to understand the jury’s verdict given the cruelty Dhillon suffered.

    “He was the Joseph Stalin of that particular family,” Torres said of the husband. The case is a tragedy for both Dhillon and her children, he said.

    Twisselman noted Dhillon had no prior criminal record at the time of her arrest, and that she committed the crime under duress. He also noted she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

    But that didn’t excuse “the gruesome manner in which she treated her grandson at his time of greatest need,” Twisselman said. He found the case didn’t qualify as unusual and imposed the life term.

    At trial, Torres argued the baby died soon after birth as a result of the daughter having received no prenatal care, or from blood loss because the baby’s umbilical cord wasn’t tied off after being severed.

    He also suggested the baby’s father, an adult cousin of the daughter, may have played a role in the child’s death.

    After Friday’s hearing, Torres said the jury may not have understood the extent of the pressure placed on Dhillon in that household.
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    “It was a house where day and night she had to live with this constant coercion, this constant duress, and that’s something that unfortunately the jury could not perhaps comprehend, and couldn’t comprehend how that would relate to Miss Beant in this case and why the actions in this particular case were committed,” he said.

    Deputy District Attorney John Allen, who prosecuted Dhillon, said the jury reached a “just verdict” in a case filled with family tragedy.

    “I think that any case that involves family violence, as was demonstrated in court today, is tragic,” he said. “It’s tragic for the entire family, and the consequences for the defendant’s actions have a ripple effect amongst the rest of the family, and I think that’s what makes it truly unfortunate and tragic…”

    Allen at trial pointed to Dhillon’s confession — which she later recanted — and the multiple lies she told to investigators as evidence of her guilt. In a recorded interview played for the jury, Dhillon told investigators she drowned the baby because the pregnancy would bring shame to the family.

    The beliefs and practices of the Sikh community were a focal point of the trial, with cultural experts explaining how many families in the Punjab region of India — where Dhillon was born — are extremely conservative. Pregnancy outside of wedlock is considered shameful by some in the community, experts called by the defense testified. Many traditional couples, like Dhillon and her deceased husband, are brought together through arranged marriages, and an unwed pregnancy could ruin a woman’s chances of landing a good match.

    Some experts also testified that men have more status than women in Sikh society, and women are expected to obey their husbands and fathers.

    While acknowledging that some in the Sikh community consider unwed pregnancy shameful, Allen said that certainly didn’t extend to permitting the killing of a child born out of wedlock. He said the Sikh culture promotes peace, and Dhillon’s actions aren’t representative of the community’s mindset.

    Allen said Dhillon told multiple lies, including about what happened to the baby in her first few statements to police, about not being able make her own decisions because of her husband, and about how she was bound by cultural traditions to keep quiet and let the men in the family decide what to do.

    After she drowned the baby, Dhillon and Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann, the baby’s father, buried the body in the family’s backyard on Shining Crag Avenue, investigators determined. Her husband, Jagsir Singh, 47, was called home from work and took part in the coverup.

    The daughter, who passed out after giving birth and was unaware of what had taken place, was later told her son had been put up for adoption.

    It wasn’t until months later, following an argument with her father where he threatened to kill her and indicated the baby was buried in the backyard, that the daughter spoke with school counselors, who then called police, according to testimony and court papers.

    Police unearthed the baby’s body and arrested Dhillon and Singh. After posting bail on a charge of being an accessory to murder, Singh hanged himself at home.

    Mann, who lived with the family and had been carrying on a sexual relationship with the daughter beginning when she was 14 and he was in his early 20s, was outside Kern County when investigators dug up the body. Before her arrest, Dhillon tipped him off that police had arrived at their home, prosecutors said.

    Mann has not been located.

    The daughter testified only she and Mann knew about the pregnancy. She said she kept it a secret because she knew her parents would be furious.

    Dhillon testified she admitted to killing the newborn, but told the jury it was a lie to protect Singh and Mann, both of who were in the country illegally. She said she was afraid what would happen to them if they were charged with a crime.

    She testified she never harmed the baby.

    Allen, the prosecutor, said that was just one more lie among the many Dhillon told.

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    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) ? When the door swung open, Beant Dhillon was met with an astonishing sight.

    Her 15-year-old daughter lay on the blood-covered bathroom floor, having given birth minutes earlier. Dhillon hadn?t even known she was pregnant.

    The daughter, weak and lightheaded, was led to another room while Dhillon was left alone with her newborn grandson. She began thinking about what others in Bakersfield?s considerable Sikh community would say about her daughter?s pregnancy, and the possible shame it would bring to the family.

    In those moments, Dhillon decided on a horrifying course of action, prosecutors said. She took her grandson, placed him face down in several inches of water in the bathtub and watched him drown. Then she buried him in the backyard of her southwest Bakersfield home.

    On Friday, Dhillon , 45, was sentenced to 25 years to life, plus four years. She sat with her head bowed most of the hearing, dressed in brown jail-issued clothing and wearing a yellow head covering, plus a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

    A jury convicted Dhillon in December of first-degree murder and two assault charges, one filed in connection with the baby?s death on Nov. 12, 2018, the other for failing to get her daughter medical care after the birth.

    Before sentencing, Dhillon?s daughter and teen son addressed the court, both saying they love their mother and have remained in touch with her since her arrest. The daughter said the family needs her.

    Defense attorney David A. Torres asked Judge Kenneth C. Twisselman II to consider sentencing Dhillon to probation by finding her predicament to be an ?unusual case? under state law, where justice would best be served with a probationary term.

    Torres argued Dhillon is also a victim, suffering years of abuse at the hands of her husband, who terrorized the entire family. Torres said he struggled to understand the jury?s verdict given the cruelty Dhillon suffered.

    ?He was the Joseph Stalin of that particular family,? Torres said of the husband. The case is a tragedy for both Dhillon and her children, he said.

    Twisselman noted Dhillon had no prior criminal record at the time of her arrest, and that she committed the crime under duress. He also noted she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

    But that didn?t excuse ?the gruesome manner in which she treated her grandson at his time of greatest need,? Twisselman said. He found the case didn?t qualify as unusual and imposed the life term.

    At trial, Torres argued the baby died soon after birth as a result of the daughter having received no prenatal care, or from blood loss because the baby?s umbilical cord wasn?t tied off after being severed.

    He also suggested the baby?s father, an adult cousin of the daughter, may have played a role in the child?s death.

    After Friday?s hearing, Torres said the jury may not have understood the extent of the pressure placed on Dhillon in that household.
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    ?It was a house where day and night she had to live with this constant coercion, this constant duress, and that?s something that unfortunately the jury could not perhaps comprehend, and couldn?t comprehend how that would relate to Miss Beant in this case and why the actions in this particular case were committed,? he said.

    Deputy District Attorney John Allen, who prosecuted Dhillon, said the jury reached a ?just verdict? in a case filled with family tragedy.

    ?I think that any case that involves family violence, as was demonstrated in court today, is tragic,? he said. ?It?s tragic for the entire family, and the consequences for the defendant?s actions have a ripple effect amongst the rest of the family, and I think that?s what makes it truly unfortunate and tragic??

    Allen at trial pointed to Dhillon?s confession ? which she later recanted ? and the multiple lies she told to investigators as evidence of her guilt. In a recorded interview played for the jury, Dhillon told investigators she drowned the baby because the pregnancy would bring shame to the family.

    The beliefs and practices of the Sikh community were a focal point of the trial, with cultural experts explaining how many families in the Punjab region of India ? where Dhillon was born ? are extremely conservative. Pregnancy outside of wedlock is considered shameful by some in the community, experts called by the defense testified. Many traditional couples, like Dhillon and her deceased husband, are brought together through arranged marriages, and an unwed pregnancy could ruin a woman?s chances of landing a good match.

    Some experts also testified that men have more status than women in Sikh society, and women are expected to obey their husbands and fathers.

    While acknowledging that some in the Sikh community consider unwed pregnancy shameful, Allen said that certainly didn?t extend to permitting the killing of a child born out of wedlock. He said the Sikh culture promotes peace, and Dhillon?s actions aren?t representative of the community?s mindset.

    Allen said Dhillon told multiple lies, including about what happened to the baby in her first few statements to police, about not being able make her own decisions because of her husband, and about how she was bound by cultural traditions to keep quiet and let the men in the family decide what to do.

    After she drowned the baby, Dhillon and Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann, the baby?s father, buried the body in the family?s backyard on Shining Crag Avenue, investigators determined. Her husband, Jagsir Singh, 47, was called home from work and took part in the coverup.

    The daughter, who passed out after giving birth and was unaware of what had taken place, was later told her son had been put up for adoption.

    It wasn?t until months later, following an argument with her father where he threatened to kill her and indicated the baby was buried in the backyard, that the daughter spoke with school counselors, who then called police, according to testimony and court papers.

    Police unearthed the baby?s body and arrested Dhillon and Singh. After posting bail on a charge of being an accessory to murder, Singh hanged himself at home.

    Mann, who lived with the family and had been carrying on a sexual relationship with the daughter beginning when she was 14 and he was in his early 20s, was outside Kern County when investigators dug up the body. Before her arrest, Dhillon tipped him off that police had arrived at their home, prosecutors said.

    Mann has not been located.

    The daughter testified only she and Mann knew about the pregnancy. She said she kept it a secret because she knew her parents would be furious.

    Dhillon testified she admitted to killing the newborn, but told the jury it was a lie to protect Singh and Mann, both of who were in the country illegally. She said she was afraid what would happen to them if they were charged with a crime.

    She testified she never harmed the baby.

    Allen, the prosecutor, said that was just one more lie among the many Dhillon told.

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    Fuck your cultural issues, you gankcuntfuckwhore. If your fucking culture wasn't so third century modern, maybe the baby could have grown to a fine adult. But because you cared more about

    appearances than a child's fucking life, you are hopefully going to get exactly what the fuck you deserve.


    Fucking cultural bullshit. This was a baby. So fucking what if you get ostracized by your community? If they weren't assholes to begin with, they wouldn't treat you like that.

    So what does that say about them? And you?
    Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Go fuck yourself.

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    Fuck your cultural issues, you gankcuntfuckwhore. If your fucking culture wasn't so third century modern, maybe the baby could have grown to a fine adult. But because you cared more about

    appearances than a child's fucking life, you are hopefully going to get exactly what the fuck you deserve.


    Fucking cultural bullshit. This was a baby. So fucking what if you get ostracized by your community? If they weren't assholes to begin with, they wouldn't treat you like that.

    So what does that say about them? And you?
    Yeah. I'm sorry she didn't see any way out... It would have been so easy to take the child to a fire station or a hospital or a church and leave him there. So easy. But she didn't.
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    Beant Dhillon sentenced to 25 years to life, plus 4 years, for drowning infant grandson

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    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Beant Dhillon, the woman convicted of drowning her newborn grandson in 2018, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, plus four years.

    Dhillon, 45, was found guilty of first-degree murder, among other charges, in December. Judge Kenneth C. Twisselman II delivered the verdict Friday, also adding that Dhillon was not eligible for probation.

    Both of Dhillon's children addressed the court Friday. Her son and daughter both said they loved their mother and wanted to maintain contact with her.

    Dhillon's daughter gave birth at the age of 15 in the family's Southwest Bakersfield home in the 5200 block of Shining Crag Avenue. Weeks later, her daughter discovered the infant was dead and buried in the home's backyard, not adopted as her family had told her.

    During the trial, Dhillon's daughter testified that the father of the child was her older cousin Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann. She said they hid the pregnancy from her parents out of fear.

    Dhillon's daughter testified that she gave birth alone in a bathtub before passing out. She said she does not know what happened after.

    Prosecutors argued during the trial that when Dhillon found her daughter had given birth, she took the infant and drowned him in several inches of water.

    Dhillon testified this was not the case, but that she instead was completely focused on her daughter. Dhillon's defense attorney David A. Torres argued that the infant's alleged father, Mann, was left alone with the infant for around 20 minutes and could have been the one to kill the infant.

    During the sentencing hearing, Torres spoke to the alleged mental and physical abuse Dhillon experienced by her husband. Torres said that Dhillon was under his control and as a result was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

    However, Judge Twisselman followed through with the sentence due to the gruesome nature of the case. He also cited Dhillon's failure to seek medical attention for her daughter and for the infant, even though she was a nurse and understood the need.

    During the trial, prosecutors pointed towards Dhillon's admission to killing the infant. However, Dhillon testified she did so only to protect her husband and her nephew.

    In February 2019, Dhillon's daughter told the police about the infant's death. Police exhumed the body on Feb. 26, 2019, and arrested Dhillon and her husband, Jagsir Singh. Singh posted his bail and in March of 2019 he hanged himself in the family's home.

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