Horrifying CCTV footage shows the moment a teenage mother threw her newborn baby into a skip bin in New Mexico.
Alexis Avila, 18, from New Mexico was arrested and charged on Friday (local time) with attempted murder and child abuse but was released from custody within two hours after posting $10,000 unsecured bail.
The horrifying CCTV starts by showing Avila getting out of her car and going into the back seat of the vehicle. She grabs a black rubbish bag - which had the newborn baby boy in it - and tosses the bag into the skip bin. She then gets back into the vehicle and drives off.
Six hours later, two men and a woman are seen going through the rubbish. They grab the rubbish bag, look inside and find the baby.
The woman quickly wraps the baby up in her arms, while one of the men calls the police, according to news outlet
"Upon arrival officers rendered aid to the newborn child and the baby was transported to a local hospital by Hobbs EMS," police said in a statement.
"The child was subsequently transported to a Lubbock hospital for further paediatric treatment."
The baby was given a blood transfusion and placed on a feeding tube and given oxygen. He remains in a stable condition.
Avila told police that she didn't know she was pregnant until she went to a doctor on Thursday and then the next day she gave birth to the baby boy in the bathroom of her home.
Hobbs Police interim chief August Fons said she told investigators that she "panicked, did not know what to do or who to call" when she gave birth.
Avila told police that she cut the umbilical cord, wrapped the baby in a towel and placed it into the rubbish bag and wrapped a hair tie on the bag to keep it closed. She drove around until she decided to dump the baby in the skip bin at the Broadmoor Shopping Center in Hobbs, New Mexico.
"The baby was wrapped in a bath towel that was dirty and wet, had dried blood on him with the umbilical cord still attached," Fons said.
Fons thanked the three people for their quick thinking when they found the baby.
"Their collective quick response to this emergency, including notification of 911, was absolutely pivotal in saving this baby's life," Fons said.
Avila is set to appear in a New Mexico court on Wednesday.
Avila's mother Martha told the Daily Mail that everyone makes "mistakes" and that her daughter's birth came as a "shock" to the family.
"People can talk and give their opinion. Everybody makes mistakes," she said. "People can preach all they want, they can judge all they want but we only care about the judgment of one."
Martha said that they weren't sure who would get custody of the baby as the father is 16-years-old.
