The alleged murder of a 15-year-old teenager to her newborn baby shocked the inhabitants of Ross-on-Wye in England. Now, four years later, the trial has begun for which the young Paris Mayo, now 19 years old, is accused of murdering the creature, on the night of March 23, 2019, and later throwing it away.
The Prosecutor's Office accuses the young woman of killing her own son shortly after giving birth alone at her parents' house while they were upstairs. Subsequently, Paris Mayo would have attacked the newborn, causing a skull fracture that left him with a serious brain injury, according to British media. Realizing that the baby was not yet dead, the young woman suffocated him by inserting cotton balls into his mouth, before placing the baby's body in a garbage bag.
The teenager would have hidden the pregnancy from her parents and, according to prosecutor Jonas Hankin KC, she killed the baby to prevent her pregnancy and birth from being discovered. “I didn't want a baby. Despite having parents and siblings who acknowledged that they love and support her, and to whom she could have turned for help and advice, she murdered the baby."
The next day, she asked her brother to put the bag outside the front door of the house, but the young woman's mother opened the bag and looked inside, noticing that it was unusually heavy. Immediately afterwards, the mother called 911 explaining that her daughter had given birth while she was asking her daughter. “You could have told me honey, you could have told me. Poor baby. Why did you not tell me?".
Mayo, who denies the murder, told emergency responders that she did not know she was pregnant and that the baby "had fallen off" during delivery. In fact, she explained that when the baby was born she "didn't move or breathe." A statement that the autopsy has denied, since it was confirmed that the baby was born alive. In addition, forensics found traces of cotton in the baby's body.
The young woman has argued in court that she used cotton to clean the "liquid" that came out of the baby's mouth. On the other hand, relatives and friends of Paris declared that they had noticed that she had begun to dress in looser and looser clothes, allegedly to try to hide her pregnancy.
