ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud woman who stabbed her infant son to death in 2021 was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison.

Fardoussa Omar Abdillahi (Forum News Service)

Fardoussa Omar Abdillahi, 29, was sentenced to 261 months by Stearns County District Judge Sarah Hennesy, according to a Stearns County Attorney’s Office news release. Abdillahi received jail credit for the 859 days she has spent in custody since her offense date, according to the release.

Last August, Abdillahi pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her 3-month-old boy.

On Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, St. Cloud police officers went to an apartment building in the 2000 block of Maine Prairie Road after receiving a call reporting that a male baby was missing and that the mother said she had thrown the baby in a dumpster. The mother, Abdillahi, lived alone with her child.

Officers searched the dumpster and found the infant’s body, and Abdillahi was arrested.

Abdillahi told police that after giving birth to her child, she experienced headaches and feelings of worry and fear. She said she was upset that the child’s father was denying the child was his.

Abdillahi admitted to stabbing her child with a knife from the kitchen and demonstrated that she cut the child across the throat. Abdillahi said that she put her child into a black bag with baby clothes and put the bag into a trash bin in her apartment before bringing the child out to the dumpster about five minutes later.

Abdillahi called her mother about 20 minutes later and told her what she had done, according to the complaint. A search by law enforcement of Abdillahi’s cellphone corroborated the timeline of her calls to her mother, and consensual searches of witness phones corroborated the timeline of the reported concern for the baby. Investigators observed multiple knives and bedding in the dumpster.

A postmortem examination was performed by Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office, which identified circumferential sharp-force injuries to the infant’s neck. The manner of death was ruled homicide.

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