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Posted on 11/07/2026 7:44:46 PM PST by Morgana
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth mother is facing a capital murder charge after police say she drowned her newborn baby in a motel bathtub before her boyfriend threw the body in a dumpster.
What we know:
Avia Cantrell, 23, and Camron Baker, 26, are now facing charges after a baby was found dead in a Fort Worth dumpster in the 7300 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard.
According to court documents, Cantrell admitted to police that she delivered a baby girl at the Drummers Inn in Fort Worth last week.
Police say Cantrell admitted to drowning the infant and leaving her body inside a bag in their motel room for four days.
The Investigation
The backstory:
On Oct. 18, a homeless woman searching for items in a dumpster found a deceased infant girl inside a bag outside the Drummers Inn on Camp Bowie West Boulevard.
Police say the infant had been dead for an extended amount of time.
A day later, on Oct. 19, police received a welfare check call on 23-year-old Avia Cantrell. Cantrell's sister-in-law requested the check, telling police that Cantrell was pregnant and due soon.
Officers contacted Cantrell in Room 205, where she had been living for the last two years with her 26-year-old boyfriend, Camron Baker, and her other children.
Police say Cantrell confessed to giving birth to a full-term baby girl in her bathtub. According to the arrest affidavit, Cantrell told detectives that she left the baby face-down in the water for approximately 30 minutes.
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They destroyed the best thing in their useless lives...
Ignorant of Safe Haven Laws?
Break out the pink shirt brigade with bullhorns, foaming at the mouth, and holding signs printed by NFP’S AND NGO’S. All the mother has to do is request a jury trial.
Just evil. Simple as that.
I can’t think of any words…
The killer mom rabies is spreading. I wonder how she voted? And even if _she_ didn’t vote, I bet her name still did.
In a couple of years, this will be legal and normalized under Governor Hinojosa.
Welcome to Hinojosa’s Texas.
She looks like a hard 33 year old, so for 23, she’s like she’s been through the exposed core of Chernobyl.
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