A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard just days after her senior prom so that she could keep her "perfect life" was acquitted of murder on Thursday.

Axar.az reports citing AP.

Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, began shaking and sobbing while a judge read the not guilty verdicts on aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment charges.

She had faced up to life in prison if she had been convicted on the most serious charge.

Richardson, though, was found guilty of corpse abuse by the Warren County jury that deliberated for four hours. She'll be sentenced today. The charge carries a potential sentence of up to one year in prison, but as a first-time offender, she could get probation.

She was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs after Warren County Judge Donald Oda II revoked her bond. Richardson didn't respond when reporters later asked her if she had anything to say.

The case divided people in her hometown of Carlisle, with Facebook pages devoted to it and some critics trying to record the Richardson family's comings and goings for social media.

Prosecutors contended that the high school cheerleader wanted to keep her "perfect life" that included plans to begin classes at the University of Cincinnati. They said she hid her unwanted pregnancy and buried her baby in her family's backyard in May 2017, just after her senior prom.