WEST PALM BEACH — Bianca DeSouza gave birth to a boy with chubby arms and a cry that only she would hear. He was still warm by the time first responders filed into her bedroom but had gone quiet long before. Their attempts to resuscitate him failed.
Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies charged DeSouza with aggravated manslaughter in December 2022, a year and a half after the newborn’s death. Investigators say she ignored the child’s cries and let him suffocate against her thigh while she reeled from the delivery in bed at her suburban Boca Raton home.
“I just didn’t do anything,” she told deputies later. “It was like my body stopped working.”…