Update on Teri Rhodes Sentencing

A district attorney won't oppose or support the stiffer-than-expected sentence for a woman who killed her newborn child while she was a student at Mercyhurst College. The attorney for 20-year-old Teri Rhodes is appealing the nine-to-18 year sentence Rhodes received, saying it's too excessive. District Attorney Brad Foulk says his office left the sentence to the discretion of the judge and it would be dishonest to change that position now. Rhodes pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing her newborn in August 2007 after hiding her pregnancy and researching ways to kill a fetus on the Internet.