Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, 18, put the baby, his umbilical cord and the placenta in a trash bag before going back to work at a taco truck.
A teenager who gave birth while working at a food truck in Houston, before putting the newborn in a trash bag and leaving him in a dumpster, is an illegal immigrant who arrived as an unaccompanied minor, according to court documents seen by Newsweek.Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, 18, went into labor, gave birth and then allegedly went back to work at the taco truck while the baby cried inside the tied-up bag on July 21.
'It was pure luck that the child was found and received care,' Judge Veronica Nelson said during Cux-Ajtzalam's first appearance before the court on Friday July 26.The Houston Chronicle reported that three other babies were found abandoned around the city in June, with some groups raising concerns that they were left because of Texas' strict abortion laws.
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