Rhodes Sentenced for Baby's Death

A former Mercyhurst College college volleyball player who suffocated her baby after secretly giving birth in a campus apartment has been sentenced to nine to 18 years in prison.

Twenty-year-old Teri Rhodes, of Commerce, Mich., pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in August. She was sentenced Friday in Erie County Court.

Rhodes was a sophomore at Mercyhurst when she gave birth to the full-term baby girl on Aug. 12, 2007.

Prosecutors charged Rhodes after learning she searched the Internet for ways to kill her fetus.