The Devil is a Lie and God Have Mercy: 18-Year-Old New Mexico Mother Charged with Attempted Murder and Child Abuse After Abandoning Her Newborn Baby in Freezing Dumpster Where He Was Found Alive Six Hours Later Says She Didn’t Know She Was Pregnant Until Giving Birth in Her Parents’ Bathroom — Daniel Whyte III Says Isn’t This Interesting? This Same Woman Would Not Have Been Charged at All if She Murdered the Child by Having an Abortion

An 18-year-old New Mexico mother who was caught on video throwing her newborn child into a dumpster told police she did not know she was pregnant until the day before she delivered her baby in a bathroom.

Alexis Avila was arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse after her infant son was found alive on Friday, nearly six hours after being tossed in the trash in 30-degree weather.

Surveillance video shows a woman arriving in a car before opening the back door and tossing a black trash bag into a dumpster in Hobbs, New Mexico, at around 2pm on January 7.

Six hours later, footage showed three people looking through the dumpster before one of them found the infant inside. Incredibly, the newborn was alive.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by KRQE on Monday, Avila told police she did not know she was pregnant until she went to a doctor for a stomach pain on Thursday.

The following day, she delivered her son in a bathroom at her parents’ home.

After giving birth, Avila said she panicked. She wrapped her son in a towel, placed him in a trash bag and drove around, before throwing the child in the dumpster at the Broadmoor Shopping Center at around 2pm on January 7.

It was not until nearly 8pm that evening that a group of dumpster divers rescued the infant after hearing his cries. They told police they initially thought it was a kitten.

Avila’s son was taken to a hospital in Hobbs before being transferred to another hospital in Lubbock that has a more advanced NICU unit.

When doctors assessed the baby, they found that his body temperate was so low that it did not register, indicating hypothermia. The newborn has since been given a blood transfusion, and put on a feeding tube and oxygen.

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SOURCE: Daily Mail, Chay Quinn