Horrifying moment 18-year-old mother tosses her newborn baby into a dumpster - before the infant is found ALIVE in trash bag six hours later
A security camera caught the moment a woman abandoned her newborn baby Alexis Avila, 18, put the baby in a trash bag and left it in a New Mexico dumpster The teen has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse Horrifying footage has captured the moment a teenage mother hurled her newborn baby in a dumpster - before the infant was found alive hours later.
Security camera 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 finding the infant inside. Incredibly, the newborn was alive and is not stable while being cared for in hospital. Cops have charged 18-year-old Alexis Avila, 18, from Hobbs with attempted murder and felony child abuse for the abandonment. They said she has confessed.
Jo Imbriale, owner of Rig Outfitters and Home Store where the security camera footage was captured, said he was asked by police to review video on Friday night. He told KOB: 'Something wasn't right, I saw the officers' faces, and they did not look right. 'I said "what is it we are looking for" and she goes "!we're looking for somebody who dumped a black garbage bag in your dumpster." I turned around, I said "please don't tell me it was a baby".' The footage shows a woman - who cops believe is Avila - driving into the parking lot in a white sedan and put a black garbage bag - containing her newborn - in it before driving off and abandoning the child. More footage shows the moment the child was rescued after people apparently heard the newborn's cries.
A woman pulled out a trash bag and reacts to what is inside, immediately beginning to tend to the baby. After being wrapped up, the child is placed in the dumpster divers' truck and later the arrival of police and ambulances which searched the dumpster and took the child to hospital. Imbriale added: 'I was in shock just to see this. 'I can't sleep at night just knowing that this baby was just tossed in a dumpster like that. I'm sorry but who does that? That is evil. I don't have words for it.' Avila is due to appear in court today.