Hobbs woman found guilty after horrifically throwing newborn in dumpster (NM)

The Piñon Post ^ | April 14, 2023 | Renato Costa

[CedarDave]

On Friday, a jury found Alexis Avila, 19, of Hobbs guilty of abuse of a child relating in great bodily harm and attempted murder in the first degree.

In January of 2022, Avila was caught on camera throwing her newborn, dubbed Baby Saul, in a dumpster outside the Rig Outfitters and Home Store in Hobbs. He was wrapped in a trash bag.

Fortunately, three people dug through the dumpster to find him, and he was rushed to the hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Baby Saul is “happy and healthy today living with family,” according to reports.

“Officers with the Hobbs Police Department were called to an alley way in the Broadmoor Shopping Center after three people who had been digging through a dumpster found the hours old boy in a trash bag, alive, and with his umbilical cord still attached but crudely cut,” according to YourBasin.com.

“Medical staff testified that the newborn suffered from hypothermia, severe anemia, and kidney problem, among other issues after being abandoned and left in 40 degree temperatures for more than six hours.”

Once police found Avila, she admitted she gave birth at home and abandoned the child, claiming to be too young to take care of him.

Avila’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. She faces 18 years imprisonment, but it could be reduced to 12 years.*

Following the verdict, Fifth Judicial District Attorney Dianna Luce noted how “tough” the case was but how fortunate it was that the perpetrator’s actions were caught on camera.

“That video said it all,” she said. “It clearly caught her actions, her expressions and it’s still difficult for people to watch that video when you think about the fact that baby was inside that bag.”

[CedarDave]

The "YourBasin.com" video shows her dumping the baby and the trio of dumpster divers who found her.

The local paper had detailed and emotional testimony of Avila's trial, especially the testimony of the doctors in Hobbs and Lubbock who worked to save Baby Saul's life. When found, he was gray, cold and couldn't cry (just a soft whimper). His rectal temperature was below 80°F (as low as the equipment would register). After initial treatment in Hobbs, he was life-flighted to Covernant Children's hospital in Hobbs. The treatment there was so excellent that he was released after just six days. Complications are a possible heart murmur and asthma.

*After the jury verdict the judge released her on house arrest (with an ankle monitor) telling her to prepare herself for sentencing on Monday May 1. She faces a mandatory sentence of 18 years on the abuse charge and possible sentence of up to nine years for the attempted murder charge.

[CedarDave]

Covernant Children's hospital in Hobbs Lubbock.

[CedarDave]

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[fortes fortuna juvat]

So why hasn’t she already been executed?

[fidelis]

She could have taken it to a hospital or fire station and simply left it there.

If she had aborted this same child just a few hours earlier in an abortion mill in a state that allows abortion, it would be a non-story to the mainstream media.

[Secret Agent Man]

I hope they don’t reduce her sentence. I hope she gets 18.

[No name given]

Me too!

[FamiliarFace]

Possible heart murmur and asthma. Omg, a perfect child! And I know a couple who can’t have children, but desperately want them. Can’t afford IVF or adoption. They pray everyday that God brings them a child.

[No name given]

I don’t know, but she ought to be!

[CedarDave]

So why hasn’t she already been executed?

The baby lived. If she had gone to an abortionist in Albuquerque the week before birth, they would have taken care of the "problem" for her and probably make money selling the baby parts.

See this interview with Dr. Ben Carson last Friday on Laura Ingraham's show where he describes how a baby suffers as it is being aborted. Having a baby is not a ‘disease’: Dr. Ben Carson

[CedarDave]

She could have taken it to a hospital or fire station and simply left it there.

Our local state senator was able to get a bill passed in the legislature to have a "baby box" installed at a fire station in each county.

[TChad]

There is one Safe Haven Baby Box in New Mexico, but it is in Española, five hours away by car.

https://shbb.org/locations

Beats the hell out of a dumpster.

[SamAdams76]

I hope they don’t reduce her sentence. I hope she gets 18.

Somewhat fitting in that the child she tried to kill would be a legal adult by then.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup.

[CedarDave]

BTW, Avila’s defense was that she is bi-polar and subject to blackouts such that she doesn’t remember being pregnant or dumping the baby. The prosecution demolished that with testimony of her showing her boyfriend the result of a pregnancy test and a doctor giving her a prescription but noting for her to be careful as she was pregnant. The jury didn’t buy any of it and came back with a guilty verdict in just a couple of hours.

[JJBookman]

It ALWAYS amazes me how utterly heartless modern women have become, COMPLETE MONSTERS!

[caww]

Here's the 16 year old father of the baby....with the mother

[CedarDave]

ABQ Channel 7 video of the crime.

https://www.koat.com/article/hobbs-police-investigate-child-abandonment-case/38705410

[caww]

[crusty old prospector]

I lived in Hobbs for a few months in the 80’s. What a dump.