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Las Cruces woman charged after police say newborn was discarded in portable toilet
KFOX 14 ^ | February 11, 2026 | Erika Esquivel

Posted on 02/12/2026 12:44:27 PM PST by Morgana

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A Las Cruces woman has been arrested after police say she gave birth to a baby girl in a portable toilet at Burn Lake and disposed of the newborn in the holding tank, where the child died.

Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, is charged with one felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in death, a first-degree felony.

About 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, staff at Memorial Medical Center notified police that Jimenez arrived at the hospital and appeared to have just delivered a baby, but the baby was not with her.

Police learned Jimenez’s boyfriend, who took her to the hospital, said they had previously been at Burn Lake and that Jimenez had used a portable toilet.

Las Cruces police officers responded to Burn Lake, off Burn Lake Road, and found the newborn in the holding tank of a portable toilet, police officials said.

The baby girl was dead.

Las Cruces firefighters recovered the baby from the holding tank.

Investigators believe Jimenez gave birth to a live baby, cut the umbilical cord and placed the child in the holding tank, where she drowned.

An autopsy conducted Monday at the New Mexico medical investigator’s office in Albuquerque found the baby was alive when she was dropped into the portable toilet, officials said.

(Excerpt) Read more at kfoxtv.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: baby; prolife; toilet

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Pic of mother on link..that is a mother?
1 posted on 02/12/2026 12:44:27 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Aren’t babies disposed of like that at abortuaries? So what’s the difference?


2 posted on 02/12/2026 12:46:30 PM PST by laweeks (///)
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To: Morgana
I think I saw her in Acuña when she was 15...
3 posted on 02/12/2026 12:46:59 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Morgana

May she rot in hell very soon.


4 posted on 02/12/2026 12:47:07 PM PST by Veto! ((Trump is Superman})
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To: Morgana

She looks sort of apelike!


5 posted on 02/12/2026 1:23:19 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Morgana

“Investigators believe Jimenez gave birth to a live baby, cut the umbilical cord and placed the child in the holding tank, where she drowned.” Some human beings can be horrific.


6 posted on 02/12/2026 1:33:19 PM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: Morgana

What a monster


7 posted on 02/12/2026 1:37:59 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Morgana

Don’t click on the link

it contains a virus


8 posted on 02/12/2026 1:42:59 PM PST by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Morgana

NM has a Safe Haven law, and Safe Haven bany boxes.

Why not just take the baby to a Safe Haven location...


9 posted on 02/12/2026 1:51:11 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

...baby boxes...


10 posted on 02/12/2026 1:51:29 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Veto!; ViLaLuz; Morgana

May she quickly repent and find Salvation ✝️✝️✝️
in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ before Eternity

✝️✝️🙏🙏🛐🛐

She’ll still face charges of course

Acts 2:38


11 posted on 02/12/2026 1:56:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Veto!

100% agree


12 posted on 02/12/2026 1:56:47 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: Mr. K; Morgana
Previous thread; virus free:

Another newborn killed in NM: Infant discovered in portable toilet holding tank

13 posted on 02/12/2026 2:07:54 PM PST by CedarDave (Having proudly supported Free Republic for over 25 years!)
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To: Morgana

The portable toilet thing must be a Mayan or Aztec thing.


14 posted on 02/12/2026 2:27:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (**** ICE (Illegal Criminal Emigrants).)
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To: Morgana

Prayers for a stop to these demonic incidents.


15 posted on 02/12/2026 2:57:41 PM PST by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Morgana

What the hell is wrong with these people? Take the child to a police station or fire station, they will take it no questions asked and the child will probably end up in the arms of a loving family that desperately want he or she.

Unless this lady is severely mentally handicapped I do not understand her actions.


16 posted on 02/12/2026 3:26:01 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: Morgana

Still waiting on her nationality status.


17 posted on 02/12/2026 3:41:12 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: laweeks
Aren’t babies disposed of like that at abortuaries? So what’s the difference?

Worse. 63% of abortions are now (2025) via "medicine" (pills), thus treating human life as sewage. Many "conservative, as with the GOP, say that abortion is not a "winnable position," as the seek the vote of suburban women. But it not a "winnable position," bcz they refuse to make it one.

If, as a result of a procreative act, something is growing inside of a women, which not only possesses uniquely human DNA which will naturally result in a functional, intelligent human being (including his/her personality), but which will quite rapidly be increasingly manifest to be a human, then what is the logical conclusion as to what it is? A human life, and person, or something akin to a cancerous growth, or even human sewage (as in most cases of abortion now)?

To value that life as less than a person due to location (safely "quarantined" in the mother's womb) and or upon degree of functionality, and thus terminate its life, treating this human life as a tumor to be dispensed with - and in most all cases is due to reasons of convenience* - is to value this life less than even the nest of a migratory bird (illegal to even disturb), let alone break eggs or otherwise kill a migratory bird.

And note that this procreative act is almost always consensual, and with *approx. % of abortions being due to rape, and about 2% necessary to save the life of the mother (and not just a physician's judgment that the child would/could have some adverse effects on the woman's health), and with "reasons of convenience" being in reference to avoiding sacrifices of time, money, education, etc., meaning sacrifices such as parents in the past made, and were overall rewarded by it.

Now, more money is spent on pets than ever before, and which outnumber children themselves.

How many pregnancies end in abortion every day in the US

What evidence defends your arguments?

18 posted on 02/12/2026 5:38:01 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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