Mom, boyfriend charged after newborn found dead inside dumpster at Fort Worth motel, police say – CBS News

Mom, boyfriend charged after newborn found dead inside dumpster at Fort Worth motel, police say  CBS News

A 23-year-old woman and her 26-year-old boyfriend have been charged in the death of her newborn baby who was found in a dumpster at a Fort Worth motel over the weekend, an arrest affidavit revealed Monday. Police said Avia Cantrell has been charged with capital murder of a person under 10 years old, and Camron Baker has been charged with abuse of a corpse. How the baby was foundThe Fort Worth Police Department said at about 8:55 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18, officers responded to the Drummers Inn in the 7300 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard after an infant was found and was possibly dead. When they arrived, a homeless woman admitted that she was dumpster diving when she found a bag, opened it at the business next door and found the child, the arrest affidavit said.

The woman told her friend, who also checked the bag to make sure, and they alerted someone at the Drummers Inn and borrowed a phone to call 911. Police said the baby was transported to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Evidence leads to the mother, her boyfriendFWPD told CBS News Texas that investigators returned to the motel on Monday to review surveillance video. The affidavit reveals that at about that same time, Cantrell's sister-in-law called police for a welfare check at