'Swallowed the liquid while alive': Mom 'dropped' newborn daughter into porta potty holding tank where she drowned in blue cleaning fluid, police say

A 38-year-old pistillate successful New Mexico is accused of sidesplitting her newborn, allegedly giving commencement to a baby girl successful a portable toilet earlier tossing the newborn into the discarded tank, leaving her to drown.

Sonia Cristal Jimenez is presently facing 1 first-degree felony number of intentional kid maltreatment resulting successful death, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Las Cruces Police Department, astatine astir 10:30 p.m. connected Saturday, a section infirmary notified constabulary that Jimenez's fellow had brought her to the infirmary and it was evident she had conscionable fixed commencement to a baby. However, neither Jimenez nor the big antheral who accompanied her to the infirmary had a kid with them.

Police spoke to the fellow who told them that helium and Jimenez had conscionable been astatine Burn Lake and that Jimenez had spent a batch of clip successful the portable toilets, according to a report from the Las Cruces Sun. The water is astir 220 miles southbound of Albuquerque.

Officers responded to the country disconnected Burn Lake Road wherever the mates had been and discovered the newborn's assemblage "in the holding vessel of a portable toilet," the section said. Firefighters with the Las Cruces Fire Department reached the country a abbreviated portion aboriginal and recovered the "lifeless baby" from the toilet's "holding tank." She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Investigators said the grounds indicated that Jimenez "gave commencement to a unrecorded baby, chopped the umbilical cord and placed the kid successful the holding vessel wherever she drowned."

"An autopsy conducted Monday astatine the New Mexico Medical Investigator's Office successful Albuquerque revealed that the babe was live erstwhile she was dropped into the portable toilet," the merchandise states. "The autopsy showed that she breathed and swallowed the bluish chemic liquid commonly utilized successful portable restroom sanitation. The bluish chemic was recovered successful the baby's trachea, lungs and tummy confirming that she breathed and swallowed the liquid portion alive."

Police said they judge Jimenez's boyfriend, whose sanction has not been publically released, was not alert that Jimenez had fixed commencement astatine the lake. They bash not expect charging him successful transportation with the baby's death.

An apprehension warrant was issued for Jimenez, who was taken into custody connected Wednesday greeting and transported to the Dona Ana County Detention Center for processing. She is presently being held without bond. It was not instantly wide erstwhile she was scheduled to look successful court.