Teen who killed newborn released after eight months

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An Arnold teenager convicted of killing her newborn son after giving birth to him in a toilet was released Thursday after serving only eight months at a juvenile detention facility.

Megan Patria, 19, turned to her family and smiled after Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis discharged her from the Waxters Juvenile Facility for delinquent girls in Southern Maryland.

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