New Mexico lady charged after allegedly drowning new child in transportable rest room

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A New Mexico lady is going through costs after she allegedly gave delivery in a conveyable rest room after which killed the new child by drowning them within the holding tank.

Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, arrived at Memorial Medical Heart in Las Cruces at round 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, when employees stated she appeared as if she had simply given delivery, however she had no child along with her, Las Cruces Police stated in a press launch.

Hospital employees then notified police concerning the uncommon encounter.

Jimenez’s boyfriend stated that they had been at Burn Lake, which is situated about six miles away, and that his girlfriend had used a conveyable rest room.

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Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, is accused of drowning her new child in a conveyable rest room. (Las Cruces Police)

Officers rushed to the abandoned space and found the toddler lady useless within the transportable rest room's holding tank.

Investigators suspect that Jimenez gave delivery, reduce the umbilical wire and left the kid within the holding tank, the place she drowned.

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An post-mortem confirmed the infant inhaled and swallowed the sanitation liquid used within the transportable rest room, in accordance with investigators. The blue chemical was discovered within the child’s trachea, lungs and abdomen, which investigators stated confirms that she breathed and swallowed the liquid whereas she was nonetheless alive.

Jimenez was arrested on Wednesday and charged with intentional youngster abuse leading to loss of life, a first-degree felony. She was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Heart and is being held without bond .

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Police discovered the toddler lady useless within the transportable rest room's holding tank. (iStock)

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Police stated they don't count on to cost her boyfriend, as they don't imagine he was conscious she had given delivery.

"This is among the most heartbreaking and disturbing circumstances I've encountered in my profession," Las Cruces police Chief Jeremy Story instructed the Santa Fe New Mexican.