The 17-year-old girl charged as an adult with killing her newborn “had every intent of having the baby,” her attorney said Wednesday.

Baltimore defense attorney Howard Cardin said Megan Patria planned to give birth with the help of a girlfriend at her mother?s home in Arnold and then raise the baby. But Patria lost more than 50 percent of her blood while giving birth and was unable to reach the friend who planned to help her, Cardin said.

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