A 16-year-old is accused of killing her newborn baby after
shoving a rock down her throat. Alaya Dotson, of Denver, Colorado in the United
States, allegedly inserted the rock in the baby’s throat an hour after giving
birth, police said.
Police said Dotson explained she was unaware of her
pregnancy and realised she was giving birth while using the bathroom in her
home in September.
Dotson said after giving birth, she took the newborn up to
her room and laid on the floor next to the infant.
The teen told police that the baby girl’s arms were “moving
back and forth, but she was not crying.”
Dotson reportedly told authorities that she wrapped the baby
in a blanket and went outside onto her patio where she put a rock in the
newborn’s throat, police said.
Dotson’s mother found the 16-year-old outside with “a lot of
blood on her shirt” and noticed blood on the blanket that the infant was
wrapped in, reports said.
Dotson’s mom called police, but the teen allegedly told her
the baby girl was already dead.
The newborn was taken to the hospital, where a one-inch rock
was removed from her throat. She died later that morning.
Dotson allegedly told police she suffocated the
newborn. She is charged with murder and will be tried as an adult,
according to reports.
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