The distraught mother of a New Mexico teen – who gave birth to her son and tossed him in a bin – pleaded with police to not be ‘rough with her’ during her arrest.
Alexee Trevizo, 19, was arrested May 10 and is charged with first-degree murder, or alternatively abusing a child resulting in death and tampering with evidence.
Trevizo was taken to Artesia General Hospital on Jan 27 with back pain before it was discovered she was in labor – although she maintained she hadn’t had sex.
The 19-year-old secretly delivered her son, threw him in a trash bag and claimed he’d been still born, when hospital staff discovered the dead newborn. She was later arrested in May.
New police bodycam footage has revealed the moment Trevizo was cuffed outside her Artesia home as her mother demanded to see an arrest warrant before reluctantly letting her go.
Three officers can be seen approaching the rural property where the 19-year-old was living with her family before knocking on the front door.
The distraught mother of a New Mexico teen – who gave birth to her son and tossed him in a bin – pleaded with police to not be ‘rough with her’ during her arrest
New police bodycam footage has revealed the moment Trevizo was cuffed outside her Artesia home as her mother demanded to see her arrest warrant before reluctantly letting her go
Alexee Trevizo, 19, was arrested May 10 and is charged with first-degree murder, or alternatively abusing a child resulting in death and tampering with evidence
Trevizo’s mother can be seen answering the door and quickly demands to see the arrest warrant, refusing entry to the police officers standing on her porch.
‘I’ll bring her out, just tell me what’s going on,’ she’s heard asking the officers.
‘There is a warrant for her arrest I’ll give it to her when she comes out,’ said one of the officers.
‘Can I see it? This is my house I have a right to see the warrant,’ she demanded.
As the conversation progressed Trevizo’s mother could be seen getting noticeably more frustrated with police as they explained that because she was above the age of 18 she would have to provide consent to see the arrest warrant.
‘We have a search warrant for your house, we have a warrant for her arrest,’ an officer can be heard saying.
‘Can I see the warrant?’ Trevizo’s mother says again before a police officer explains ‘she gets a copy of it’ referring to the 19-year-old.
Trevizo’s mother can be seen answering the door and quickly demands to see the arrest warrant, refusing entry to the police officers standing on her porch
Trevizo’s mother begins to speak to someone on a phone still asking to see the arrest warrant before she eventually concedes and brings her daughter outside to be taken into custody
‘Can I go up there when you take her up there?’ Trevizo’s mother asks becoming more distressed as the conversation continues.
Trevizo’s mother begins to speak to someone on a phone still asking to see the arrest warrant before she eventually concedes and brings her daughter outside to be taken into custody.
In the moments before she goes into the house to get her daughter Trevizo’s mother pleads with the officers not to be ‘rough’ with her as they take her away.
‘I will give her to you, but please don’t hurt her, please don’t touch her,’ she says shaking her head.
Breaking down in tears she adds: ‘Please don’t be rough with her, please.’
Trevizo’s mom then walks into the house to retrieve her daughter, before she’s taken away by the officers.
Her mother explains that she’s still bleeding and Trevizo is allowed to take some personal belongings before she’s walked over to the police vehicle outside the property
Three officers can be seen approaching the rural property where the 19-year-old was living with her family before knocking on the front door
Her mother explains that she’s still bleeding and Trevizo is allowed to take some personal belongings before she’s walked over to the police vehicle outside the property.
As she gets to the car, an officer can be seen cuffing the young mother before she’s put inside the car.
The bodycam footage is part of a series of damning videos which detail the moments before and after Trevizo dumped her newborn in a trash bag and it died.
Earlier, horrifying footage surfaced of the moment nurses discovered trevizo’s dead son in a hospital trash bag.
Trevizo has maintained her innocence, claiming she didn’t know she was pregnant and when she delivered the baby it was stillborn.
In the footage, Trevizo can be seen running to the bathroom inside Artesia General Hospital, New Mexico, in January.
Earlier, horrifying footage surfaced of the moment nurses discovered trevizo’s dead son in a hospital trash bag
Trevizo had attended the hospital with back pain but tests revealed she was pregnant and in labor.
The footage shows the more than 20 minutes after she left the bathroom, a cleaner is seen going into the toilet after staff said they discovered blood inside.
The cleaner then calls another member of staff and the two peer into a black trash bag before both quickly stepping back.
After realizing what they’d found, more members of staff can be seen arriving on the scene to check the contents of the garbage can.
Five minutes after the discovery, the cleaner who found the newborn can be seen being consoled by two members of staff before being led away.
Soon after police officers arrived at the hospital.
Bodycam footage captured the moment a doctor told Trevizo and her mother: ‘We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom.’
‘I’m sorry, it came out of me and I didn’t know what to do… I was just scared, it was not crying or nothing,’ Trevizo explains.
Five minutes after the horrific discovery, the cleaner who found the newborn can be seen being consoled by two members of staff before being led away
Holding her hand Trevizo’s mother pleads with her daughter, saying: ‘What did you do?’
‘What did you do to it,’ the mother demands and holds her head in her hands in desperation, before the doctor tells her to ‘stop right there.’
‘The number one priority is she just had a baby, I don’t know whether she has delivered the placenta. She’s bleeding significantly,’ the doctor says, before explaining that the teenager must be moved to the obstetrician.
‘I’m sorry about this, but in terms of delivering the baby, it looks like you tried to hide it, so we do have to have the police involved,’ the doctor continues.
‘The baby is going to have to be taken for autopsy and there will be an investigator and everything.’
‘I’m so sorry, but we need to do this correctly and I want to be transparent with you about what our steps are going to be.’
‘Nothing was crying, it came out with nothing,’ Trevizo repeats.
A male medic in the room then asks the mother and daughter if they have any questions, to which Trevizo’s mother asks how big the baby is.
Bodycam footage captured the moment a doctor told Trevizo and her mother: ‘We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom’
‘It’s full term,’ the masked medic responds.
‘What!’ she exclaims, suggesting she did not know that her daughter was nine months pregnant prior to the birth.
‘Lexi, have you watched the news, about what the girls do to their babies and they go to jail,’ the mother asks in frustration.
A traumatized Trevizo bursts into tears and is then told that there are detectives on the way to talk to her and that she’s now detained in the hospital under police custody.
At the beginning of the released body cam footage, a nurse told responding officers that Trevizo had a positive pregnancy test but denied having sex.
Investigators said that by the time the baby was found it had died and an autopsy listed the cause of death as a homicide in March.
On May 10 Police charged Trevizo with first-degree murder, ‘or alternatively’ intentional abuse of a child resulting in death, plus a count for tampering with evidence.
A traumatized Trevizo bursts into tears and is then told that there are detectives on the way to talk to her and that she’s now detained in the hospital under police custody
Trevizo has since been released from jail on a $100,000 bond and will be able to finish the school year without an ankle monitor or house arrest, while she awaits trial
Trevizo has since been released from jail on a $100,000 bond and will be able to finish the school year without an ankle monitor or house arrest, while she awaits trial.
Gary C. Mitchell, an attorney for Trevizo, previously told the Associated Press that his client has no criminal record and should not be facing a murder charge.
He said there are ‘major discrepancies about what happened’ in the hospital and ‘this isn’t a classic child abuse case.’
This is the second high-profile case of a mother and newborn baby being dumped in a bin in New Mexico in recent years.
Jurors convicted Alexis Avila, 19, of throwing her newborn into an outdoor trash receptacle in January 2020 in Hobbs, New Mexico.
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