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Keli Lane jailed for murdering newborn
AAP-April,15-Former water polo champion Keli Lane has been jailed for at least 13 years and five months for murdering her newborn baby Tegan more than 14 years ago.
In the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Anthony Whealy set a maximum term of 18 years.
The 35-year-old former athlete was found guilty last December of murdering her second baby, Tegan, on September 14, 1996, after they left a Sydney hospital and before she went to a wedding.
Lane, who had two terminations as a teenager, kept three pregnancies and births secret.
She adopted out her first and third babies, but was convicted of murdering Tegan, whose body has never been found.
Lane claimed she handed Tegan over to the infant's father, a man with whom she said she had a brief and secret affair.
But the crown contended she murdered the baby as she had not wanted to be burdened with a child as she wanted to pursue her sporting, sex and social life.