Mother sentenced to 25 years for death of Baby Moses

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Keri Mazzuca of Altamont was sentenced to 25 years in prison before Judge Roger McDonough in Albany County Court on Friday for causing the death of her newborn son "Baby Moses" Washington in September 1997. Mazzuca, 52, pleaded guilty back in February.

Mazzuca previously confessed to fatally suffocating her child by placing her hands over the baby's mouth and nose. She then admitted to wrapping up the child's body and discarding it near the statue of Moses in Washington Park.

DNA analysis of evidence led to Mazzuca's arrest in September 2024, 27 years after the child's death. Mazzuca was also sentenced to one and one third year to four years in prison for tampering with physical evidence, which will run concurrently with the manslaughter charge. She will also serve five years of probation following her release.