The Butler County District Attorney's Office is no longer seeking the death penalty for a Butler County 25-year-old who confessed to police she killed her newborn infant.

District Attorney Richard Goldinger said his assistant, B.T. Fullerton, notified Judge Timothy McCune during a pretrial conference May 2 that the death penalty no longer is on the table.

Former district attorney Randa Clark had notified the court that she would seek the highest penalty during the arraignment of Lauren Elizabeth Jones of Buffalo last year.

Ms. Jones is charged with homicide, concealing the death of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and abuse of a corpse.

The case unfolded after Ms. Jones' mother, Debra Troutman, asked a friend on March 6, 2007, to investigate an odor emanating from her daughter's bedroom in the home they shared on Monroe Street in Buffalo.

The baby girl's body was found wrapped in a garbage bag and inside a backpack placed beneath a bed.

Ms. Jones told police she didn't know she was pregnant when she went into labor Feb. 28. She has another young child.

Ms. Jones had said she had stabbed the baby because "she wanted to ensure the baby wouldn't suffer." Though she had said the child wasn't breathing, she also told the trooper the infant had moved at least once.

She said she put it in a garbage bag, stuffed it into a backpack and hid it under her bed in an upstairs bedroom until she could bury it. She told the officer the ground was too hard the next day to dig a hole so she left the baby under her bed.

An autopsy showed that the infant was born alive, had three stab wounds to the throat and died of suffocation.

No trial date is set.