Hobbs teen wants visitation with baby she’s accused of tossing in dumpster

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico teenager who threw her newborn baby in a dumpster is now asking a choose to permit her to see the boy. Her lawyers have filed a motion to critique disorders of release and are asking for much more than just visitation.

“This was not someone driving to the medical center, driving to a clinic, driving to a friend’s, driving to anyone to request assistance. She understood what she was carrying out at the time,” reported a prosecutor through a preliminary hearing for Alexis Avila on February 28.

In the course of that listening to, the choose declared there was sufficient proof to go to demo for boy or girl abuse. It was January 7 when superior Samaritans located the baby boy in a dumpster in Hobbs.

“In my 27 yrs of carrying out this, I have by no means viewed anyone, youngster or grownup, have a temperature that was not read with a digital thermometer,” prosecutors explained throughout the hearing. They argued Avila’s actions had been intentional in harming the infant.

In the meantime, Avila’s protection lawyers produced the circumstance that she should not face felony boy or girl abuse with fantastic bodily damage considering that the toddler survived. Now, her lawyers are asking to grant permission for Avila to have supervised visits with the boy who lives with his teenage dad.

The evening of her arrest, she was previously inquiring to get the boy again. “If the toddler is okay, I want it,” said Avila.

Her lawyers condition she is attending counseling and is in parenting courses. They also say she completed her superior university diploma need and has been acknowledged to a college or university exactly where she’ll examine psychology.

The boy’s father didn’t even know that she was continue to pregnant when she gave birth. Prosecutors are likely to combat this. The only portion of the movement they presently concur with is to permit Alexis Avila to be in her backyard though on household arrest.

Alexis Avila would also like to court to grant her authorization to have make contact with with family users who are below the age of 10. No date has been established to listen to this movement.