20-year-old, Christian Ferdinand has been charged with murdering his 14-year-old girlfriend Shaniesha Forbes who he thought was pregnant.
The incident took place in New York.
Ferdinand smothered Shaniesha Forbes to death, then shoved her remains in a suitcase, before setting it aflame on a Brooklyn beach.
The accused the fled to Maine where he was arrested Thursday( 16/05/2013), told detectives he murdered the teen because she said she was pregnant with his child and refused to get an abortion, police sources said.
New York City’s medical examiner however confirmed as false the allegation that the teenager who had run away from home once before was pregnant.
The sordid crime as left the bereaved family shattered.
A cousin to the dead girl, Kerri Ann Thomas said , ‘You had the courage and the balls to kill her but you couldn’t go to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test to find out if it was true? “That makes no sense,” she added.
Shaniesha, a freshman at The Academy for Young Writers freshman who was found dead on the beach on Jan. 6, met Ferdinand on Facebook and began a sexual relationship with her, sources said.
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