A Kern County jury has found a woman accused in the death of her newborn grandson guilty of first-degree murder.

Beant Dhillon, 45, faces life in prison on charges including murder, assault of a child under the age of 8 resulting in death and willful cruelty to a child.

She drowned the newborn child after her teen daughter gave birth inside the bathroom of the family’s Bakerfield home, prosecutors said.

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