The woman accused of leaving her infant baby to die in an Albany park pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter.

Keri Mazzuca, of Altamont, admitted to leaving her baby near the Moses statue in Albany’s Washington Park on Sept. 7, 1997. The baby was named “Baby Moses” The case was unsolved for many years until Mazzuca was arrested last September.

Mazzuca told the court that soon after she delivered her baby boy, she placed her hand over the child’s nose and mouth and wrapped him in a towel. She set the towel on fire to destroy her own fingerprints, and then placed the baby in a pillowcase. She dumped the body in a flower bed at Washington Park.

Mazzuca had been charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence but pleaded to the reduced count.

Mazzuca is set to receive 22 to 25 years in prison when sentenced on April 18.