NUNN, Colo. — A Texas 18-year-old was charged with first-degree homicide Friday in the stabbing of her child after giving beginning on her personal whereas visiting Colorado with household, prosecutors mentioned.
Leiyla Cepeda instructed an investigator the child was quiet and never shifting and didn’t appear to be respiratory when she was born however declined to elucidate why the child had stab wounds, in accordance with court docket paperwork. In an interview with her mom current, Cepeda mentioned she thought she had been pregnant however was undecided, explaining {that a} being pregnant check she had taken about three to 4 months earlier than was adverse.
A coroner decided the child was alive when born on the dwelling of Cepeda’s kin in the small city of Nunn and died of a number of sharp power accidents, in accordance with Cepeda’s arrest affidavit. A pair of scissors was discovered close to the child’s physique, the doc mentioned.
It was not identified if Cepeda, who has been hospitalized since giving beginning, had a lawyer but.
She was 17 when the child was born however turned 18 on Friday, Krista Henery, a spokesperson for nineteenth Judicial District Attorney Michael Rourke, mentioned. She has been charged as an grownup.
While being questioned, Cepeda was requested what she was pondering when the child was born, in accordance with the arrest affidavit. “She acknowledged she had to determine the best way to inform her mother,” the investigator wrote.