A 16-year-old is accused of
killing her newborn baby after shoving a rock down her throat.
Alaya Dotson, of
Denver, allegedly put 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 realized 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, Fox News reported.
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, Fox News reported.
Dotson allegedly
told police she suffocated the newborn, according to the station.
She is charged
with murder and will be tried as an adult, according to reports.
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