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Baby Cried Before Mother Flushed Him

BAYTOWN, Texas -- A baby born to a 14-year-old mother in a restroom at her junior high was alive at birth, dying only after she tried to flush it down the toilet, officials said Thursday. Police also announced Thursday that the baby born Wednesday was a boy. Baytown police Lt. Eric Freed said the baby boy was probably full term and cried once before his mother tried to flush him down the toilet. An autopsy confirmed the infant was alive. The mother, an eighth-grader at Cedar Bayou Junior High, was taken to a hospital Wednesday. People who knew her at school said she wore baggy clothing, and nobody suspected she was pregnant, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday. Read more...

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Houston Police: Girl Tried to Flush Newborn Down School Toilet
HOUSTON -- A 14-year-old Houston-area girl gave birth to a full-term baby in a bathroom at her junior high school on Wednesday, then tried to flush it down the toilet, killing the infant, police said. "The baby was alive when it was born," said Lt. Eric Freed with the Baytown Police Department. "The girl attempted to flush the child down the toilet, and the child died as a result." The body has been sent to the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office where an autopsy is scheduled Thursday to determine the cause and manner of death.

Posted by Editor at April 5, 2008 12:25 PM