Videos show teen mom Alexee Trevizo cheerleading with an enormous baby bump just three weeks before she gave birth in secret and dumped her son in a trash can, despite her claim that no one – including her – knew she was pregnant.
Trevizo, 19, has been charged with first degree murder for putting her newborn baby son’s body in a trash can, beneath a plastic bag, at Artesia General Hospital in New Mexico on January 27.
Her mother, Rosa Rodriguez, told police that she didn’t know she was pregnant, and that they had only come to the hospital because she complained of back pain.
But videos obtained by DailyMail.com show a round-bellied Trevizo looking visibly pregnant on January 6, just three weeks earlier.
Videos taken on January 6 – three weeks before she gave birth – show Alexee Trevizo, 19, cheerleading with an enormous baby bump. On January 27, she gave birth in secret and dumped the infant’s body in a hospital trash can. Now, she is charged with murder
She walks slowly across the court, at times holding her pom-poms over her protruding belly, and is seen pulling her shirt down frequently.
Just 21 days later, she was in the hospital, crying as police told her she’d been caught trying to get rid of her son’s body.
Alexee went to the hospital with her mother, complaining of back pain. Pregnancy tests confirmed that she was not only expecting, but was also already in labor.
A panicked Alexee then took herself to the bathroom, locking the door once she got there.
Hospital surveillance camera footage shows her struggling to walk down the halls, and clutching at her bottom.
Once inside the restroom, she delivered the baby boy.
She then placed him in a trash can, covering him with plastic bags, and returned to the room where she was being examined.
Despite her condition, she struggled through cheerleading routines, lifting her friends into over-head balances, during a basketball match between Artesia High School and another local team
She walks slowly across the court, at times holding her pom-poms over her protruding belly, and is seen pulling her shirt down frequently
‘She didn’t know she was pregnant,’ Alexee’s attorney, Gary C. Mitchell, said of her case
January 27: Trevizo and her mother, Rosa Rodriguez, in the hospital. They both insisted they did not know she was pregnant when police confronted them about finding the infant’s body in a trash can
‘I told you about this’: The girl’s mother told her she had warned her about what happens to girls who try to kill their babies
The 19-year-old has been charged with first degree murder. She is due back in court in September but is allowed back to school and to graduate before then
A cleaner found the infant soon afterwards. He was dead by the time she got to him.
An autopsy later ruled that the boy died as the result of a lack of oxygen, which police say was the result of Alexee suffocating him.
When police confronted Alexee, she admitted giving birth but claimed the baby was a stillborn.
‘Nothing was crying,’ she wept.
Her mother turned to her almost immediately and told her: ‘I told you about this’.
She then referred to other cases of teenagers disposing of their babies, and how they ‘go to jail’.
Later in interviews, Rosa told police: ‘I didn’t know she was pregnant.’
In a statement to DailyMail.com, the family’s attorney, Gary Mitchell, said: ‘This child did not cause the death of this baby. She did not know that she was pregnant.’
The baby’s father, Alexee’s boyfriend, has not spoken publicly about the incident.
The pair, who had been together for two years when she gave birth in January, attended prom together in April, three months after the death of their son.
Despite the severity of the charges, Alexee was released on bond.
She is allowed to finish school and graduate, and will be back in court in September for a pre-trial hearing.
The teenager was arrested and charged with murder on May 10
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