Teenager, 19, admits to giving birth to baby in hospital bathroom and placing him in a trash bag
A New Mexico teenager has admitted to giving birth to a baby boy and placing him in a trashcan, newly released police bodycam footage shows.
Alexee Trevizo, 19, is heard telling her mother, ‘It came out of me, I put it in the bag. In the trash bag. I’m sorry mom.
Trevizo locked herself in the hospital bathroom on January 27, gave birth to the baby boy before placing him in the trash can, investigators said. She remains free on release as she awaits trial for first degree murder.
Prior to the admission a doctor wearing a white lab coat can be seen in the footage explaining to the police officer, Trevizo and her mother the circumstances as the hospital understands them.
‘We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom’ the doctor says, as Trevizo is seen lying on a hospital bed, with her mother sat at her feet.
‘I’m sorry, it came out of me and I didn’t know what to do,’ Trevizo tells the doctor, ‘I was just scared, it wasn’t crying or nothing.’
Alexee Trevizo, 19, has admitted to giving birth to a baby boy and placing him in a trashcan.
‘What did you do to it’ the mother demands and holds her head in her hands in desperation, before the doctor tells her to ‘stop right there’.
‘The number one priority guys’ the doctor goes on is ‘she just had a baby, I don’t know whether she has delivered the placenta. She’s bleeding significantly’ she says, before explaining that the teenager must be moved to the obstetrician.
‘I’m sorry about this, but in terms of delivering a baby and it looked like you tried to hide it, we do have to have the police involved.
‘The baby is going to have to be taken for autopsy and there will be an investigator and everything’ the doctor continues in a calm voice.
‘I’m so sorry, but we need to do this correctly and I want to be transparent with you about what our steps are going to be.’
‘Nothing was crying, it came out with nothing’ Trevizo repeats.
A male medic in the room then asks the mother and daughter if they have any questions, to which Trevizo’s mother asks how big the baby is.
‘It’s full term’ the masked medic responds.
‘It came out of me, I put it in the bag. In the trash bag. I’m sorry mom
Trevizo’s mother appears not to have known her daughter was nine months pregnant.
Newly released bodycam footage shows the heartbreaking admission
‘What!’ she exclaims, suggesting she did not know that her daughter was nine months pregnant prior to the birth.
‘Lexi, have you watched the news, about what the girls do to their babies and they go to jail’ the mother asks in frustration.
A traumatized Trevizo bursts into tears and is then told that there are detectives on the way to talk to her and that she is now detained in the hospital under police custody.
Trevizo locked herself in the hospital bathroom on January 27 and gave birth to the baby boy before placing him in the trash can, investigators said.