Be warned, readers: This is a horrible and disgusting story… A 16-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, has been accused of ending her newborn’s very short life by tossing the baby out of a second-floor window shortly after giving birth on Friday, September 30. The teenager’s name is Antonia Lopez. The Omaha World-Herald reports that she was booked into a juvenile detention facility Saturday for one count of felony child abuse resulting in death. She will be charged as an adult. The gender of the infant and the exact cause of the baby’s death are not known at this time. However, law enforcement officials told the newspaper that the baby was born prematurely. But it was still born . It was alive when it entered the world. “The child wasn’t a stillborn,” Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said. “To be booked on that count, the child would have had to have been born alive.” Lopez went into labor very early on Friday morning, although it remains unclear exactly when the baby was born. At 3:40 a.m, approximately 30 minutes before police were called, Lopez posted the following message on Facebook: “Who can do me a huge favor and has a car?” Three crying emoji faces followed the request. At some point, police conform, she discarded the newborn by throwing him or her out the window. Lopez’s mother discovered the infant in the grass outside their apartment building and called 911 as she performed CPR on the baby until paramedics and police arrived. But it was too late. Fire Department paramedics say that the newborn had passed away by the time they transported him or her to nearby Creighton University Medical Center. “The child was transported to Creighton University Medical Center, the child has died,” Lt. Mark Desler, with the Omaha Police Department, said at the scene. Lopez was then taken to Creighton for a medical evaluation. She was released Saturday and transferred to the juvenile facility. The girl’s grandfather John Barcelona told KETV that he saw Lopez just days before the incident and had no clue she was even pregnant. “She looked like she was well underweight more than anything else,” he said. “I would’ve never dreamed that she was pregnant. In my head, I just can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” Added a neighbor to KETV: “It makes me feel very disturbed. Just looked like a normal family, normal neighbors, say hi, keep to their self.” According to the Omaha World-Herald, the teenager and a female friend were recently accused of shoplifting cellphone cases from an Omaha Walmart and hiding them in a pink purse. Antonia was sentenced to at least six months of probation on charges of theft.
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Teen Mom Gives Birth, Hurls Baby Out the Window
