BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Eight years after a newborn was found buried in a southwest Bakersfield backyard, the last person connected to the case was sentenced, according to Kern County Superior Court records.
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FILE: BAKERSFIELD POLICE. (KBAK/KBFX photo)
Court records show Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann received six years in prison, with credit for time served, after pleading last year to no contest to his role in the child’s death. Mann was captured by Canadian authorities in 2021.
FILE: The backyard of a home in southwest Bakersfield, Calif., where police said a newborn baby was murdered and buried, is seen Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (KBAK/KBFX photo)
Prosecutors say the baby was drowned in Nov. 2018 by his grandmother, Beant Dhillon, who told investigators she acted because of the shame she believed her unwed daughter’s pregnancy brought to the family.
The backyard of a home in southwest Bakersfield, Calif., where police said a newborn baby was murdered and buried, is seen Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (KBAK/KBFX photo)
FILE: Beant Kaur Dhillon appears Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Kern County court in Bakersfield, Calif., for allegedly murdering her newborn grandson after her teenage daughter gave birth to “prevent family shame,” according to police. (KBAK/KBFX photo)
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Dhillon is currently serving a 25-year-to-life sentence after she was sentenced in 2021.
Jagsir Singh, the father of the teenage mother, told police he wasn’t home during the birth and death of the baby but was told what had happened afterward, according to a police report. He told police he allowed the baby to be buried in the backyard and did not seek medical attention for his daughter because he was worried his wife would kick him out of the house and he might be deported, the report stated.
He was arrested on allegations of aiding a felon, felony child abuse, and conspiracy. He was released on a $50,000 bail. Singh committed suicide in March 2019.