MIDDLETOWN - Brooke Skylar Richardson had no intention of having a child.

Not at 18. Not as a single mother. Not with college only a few months away.

That’s what prosecutors say the teenager told doctors when she found out she was pregnant in April last year.

Richardson's reaction to the news in the doctor's office was extreme and over the top, prosecutors said at an appeals hearing Tuesday. So much so that her doctor told her if she had thoughts about hurting the baby she needed to tell them.

After the hearing, her attorney told The Enquirer he was "pissed" about this characterization of events.

"The prosecutor is fabricating," Charlie H. Rittgers said in a voicemail. "It's just not true that Skylar Richardson had no intention of having a baby."

'She does nothing to prepare'

In the months that followed, prosecutors said, Richardson didn’t return to the doctor’s office for an ultrasound, bloodwork or anything else. She ignored phone calls from both the doctor and assistants, prosecutors said.

Her doctors were concerned.

“She does nothing to prepare for this baby coming into the world,” said Assistant Warren County Prosecutor Kirsten Brandt.

When Richardson came in three months later, she told her doctor she delivered a dead baby girl in the middle of the night, didn’t tell her parents and buried her child in the backyard, Brandt said.

Then, she cleaned up the mess.

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One doctor called a friend from the Middletown Police Department. Another called Carlisle police, and they started investigating.

Eventually, Richardson would be charged with murder and four other felonies.

She was accused of purposefully killing her child, prosecutors said, because her family was obsessed with external appearances and a pregnancy was not an acceptable outcome for them.

A rare glimpse into case details

Her case has drawn national attention, and a reporter from CBS News was in the courtroom Tuesday. Richardson was scheduled to stand trial earlier this year, but issues about medical records and patient privacy delayed the trial.

On Tuesday morning, attorneys from both sides of the case argued before the 12th District Court of Appeals.

Prosecutors think what the teenager said to her OB-GYN will help prove her guilt. But her attorneys want to prevent those doctors from testifying, saying their testimony would violate privacy rights.

The almost hour-long hearing Tuesday provided a better glimpse into the case, which has largely been argued in sealed court documents and behind a closed door in judge's chambers.

It all centered around Richardson and her doctors.

But like much of the case, her defense attorneys completely disagreed with what prosecutors said.

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Richardson's attorneys said her doctor wasn’t concerned by her reaction to finding out she was pregnant.

She cried, but so do most 18-year-old single mothers, said attorney Neal Schuett.

Her doctor made generic statements about depression, Schuett acknowledged, but said the doctor does so once or twice a month to other young women in similar situations.

Richardson’s doctor called his police friend because he wanted to know about protocol, the attorney said, not because he was concerned Richardson harmed her baby. Doctors were concerned because Richardson was so far along in her pregnancy and wanted to see her again.

'It's not normal for someone to bury a child in the backyard'

Other interest in Richardson came because her aunt worked at her OB-GYN office and wanted to know what happened.

“It was pure curiosity and gossip,” Schuett said.

But multiple judges hearing the case interrupted at different points while Schuett was talking.

“It’s not normal for someone to bury a child in the backyard,” said Judge Robert A. Hendrickson. “Why wouldn’t there be reasonable suspicion here?”

Prosecutor Brandt said Richardson is trying to wield her patient confidentiality like a sword to prevent accountability. She tries to use it when the information hurts her, the prosecutor said, but is fine discussing medical issues that paint her in a better light.

No decision was made Tuesday. The judges said they would work as expeditiously as they could, but a ruling could still take months.

Richardson, now 19, is under house arrest but can leave her parents' home as long as she is back by 9 p.m. Neither she nor her parents attended the hearing.