Alexis Avila, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse for allegedly throwing her newborn baby in a dumpster
The baby’s grandmother tossed in a trash can by her teenage mother defended her daughter, telling DailyMail.com: “Everyone makes mistakes.”
Hobbs high school student Alexis Avila, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted murder after he abandoned his newborn baby in a dumpster behind a shopping mall in Hobbs, New Mexico on Friday.
The newborn, who was named Saul by his 16-year-old father, is currently recovering at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, and is being cared for by the Department of Children, Youth and Families of New Mexico.
Now Avila’s mother Martha, 47, has broken her silence to defend her daughter and told DailyMail.com the birth was a “shock” outside her $ 104,000 home in Hobbs.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, she said: “People can talk and give their opinion. Everyone makes mistakes. People can preach whatever they want, they can judge whatever they want. , but we only care about the judgment of one.
She added: “Yeah, that was a shock.”
Martha told DailyMail.com that she was not sure the family would be given custody of baby Saul – although this is likely to be disputed by the family of the baby’s father.
Avila’s mother Martha, 47, broke her silence to defend her daughter and told DailyMail.com the birth was a “shock”
Shocking images from New Mexico show Avila tossing baby in dumpster into garbage bag
After giving birth, Avila said she had “panicked”. She wrapped her son in a towel, placed him in a white plastic bag with trash and a larger black trash bag, and walked around, before throwing the child in the trash at Broadmoor Shopping Center around 14 hours. The baby was found six hours later.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, the 16-year-old boy’s uncle said the baby would likely be taken in by his 50-year-old grandfather, a contractor who runs an oilfield maintenance business eight miles from the city.
He said: ‘[His dad] is not the type to abandon a family member. He won’t leave this baby homeless. It was a big shock to all of us. We only learned about the baby last night.
According to texts shared with DailyMail.com by a friend of the 16-year-old, Avila told her she was pregnant but claimed she miscarried after their separation last summer.
But friends of Avila said she spoke openly about her pregnancy at school and stopped coming to class shortly before Christmas break in mid-December.
Avila and her mother Martha told police they didn’t know she was pregnant, with Avila telling cops that she gave birth in the bathroom at her parents’ modest house last Thursday and panicked before throwing her baby in the trash.
Avila, who is scheduled to appear in court in Lovington, New Mexico on Wednesday afternoon, is currently out on bail and is keeping a low profile at her parents’ house.
She was filmed throwing her baby in a dumpster at Broadmoor Shopping Center in Hobbs last Friday afternoon – while cops released the panicked 911 call that followed five hours later when divers from the dumpster found the child.
According to the call, baby Saul was “freezing cold” and “still had his umbilical cord tied.”
“People can speak up and give their opinion. Everyone makes mistakes, ”said Avila’s mother. The dumpsters where she threw her son are pictured
Panicked 911 calls detail the horrific moment a newborn baby was found in a dumpster in New Mexico. “We just found a baby in the god ** n trash,” the caller is heard to say. “He’s freezing cold and his umbilical cord is still attached”
Footage from the same camera captured the moment a heroic woman rescued the child from the dumpster
Michael Green, Hector Jesso and April Meadow spotted the baby after hearing his screams and said they assumed it was a cat when they first released the baby.
Surveillance video captured the scene as they opened the bag to find a shivering and moaning newborn inside.
Meadow is heard during the call telling the cops that the baby is “freezing cold and very, very, very weak” before adding that she had wrapped the child in her coat to keep him warm.
Avila was arrested the next day. According to the criminal complaint, she confessed to throwing her child away.
The 18-year-old told police she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went to a doctor with stomach pain on Thursday.
The next day, she gave birth to her son in a bathroom at her parents’ house. After giving birth, Avila said she had “panicked”.
She said she wrapped her son in a towel, placed him in a white plastic bag with trash and a larger black garbage bag, and walked around, before throwing the child in the dumpster at Broadmoor Shopping Center around 2pm.
Avila told cops she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went to a doctor for stomach pain on January 6. The next day, she gave birth to her son in her parents’ bathroom.
Avila’s mother told DailyMail.com the birth was a ‘shock’ outside her $ 104,000 home in Hobbs, New Mexico
During her interview with the police, Avila was quoted as referring to her child like “that”. Police subsequently executed a search warrant at the family’s home and seized physical evidence, including bloody clothes.
Avila was released from prison after posting an unsecured bond of $ 10,000 less than two hours after her arrest.
August Fons, the acting chief of the Hobbs Police Department, said he had never encountered a case like this before.
“If you are having difficulty with a newborn baby, the best answer is to find someone who can help you,” he said.
“Contact us and let us help you get through the situation. ”
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