New Mexico mother accused of drowning newborn in portable toilet after giving birth

A New Mexico pistillate is facing charges aft she allegedly gave commencement successful a portable toilet and past killed the newborn by drowning them successful the holding tank.

Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, arrived astatine Memorial Medical Center successful Las Cruces astatine astir 10:30 p.m. connected Feb. 7, erstwhile unit said she appeared arsenic if she had conscionable fixed birth, but she had nary babe with her, Las Cruces Police said successful a property release.

Hospital unit past notified constabulary astir the antithetic encounter.

Jimenez’s fellow said they had been astatine Burn Lake, which is located astir six miles away, and that his woman had utilized a portable toilet.

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Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, is accused of drowning her newborn successful a portable toilet. (Las Cruces Police)

Officers rushed to the deserted country and discovered the babe miss dormant successful the portable toilet's holding tank.

Investigators fishy that Jimenez gave birth, chopped the umbilical cord and near the kid successful the holding tank, wherever she drowned.

The woman's fellow said they had been astatine Burn Lake and that his woman had utilized a portable toilet. (Las Cruces Police)

An autopsy showed the babe inhaled and swallowed the sanitation liquid utilized successful the portable toilet, according to investigators. The bluish chemic was recovered successful the baby’s trachea, lungs and stomach, which investigators said confirms that she breathed and swallowed the liquid portion she was inactive alive.

Jimenez was arrested connected Wednesday and charged with intentional kid maltreatment resulting successful death, a first-degree felony. She was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center and is being held without bond.

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Police recovered the babe miss dormant successful the portable toilet's holding tank. (iStock)

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Police said they bash not expect to complaint her boyfriend, arsenic they bash not judge helium was alert she had fixed birth.

"This is 1 of the astir heartbreaking and disturbing cases I person encountered successful my career," Las Cruces constabulary Chief Jeremy Story told the Santa Fe New Mexican.