Fort Worth newborn drowned in motel bathtub, mother charged with capital murder

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...., Cantrell told detectives that she left the baby face-down in the water for approximately 30 minutes.

An example of "be sure your sins will find you out," in this case it was quite soon. I feel compassion for the women, whom I surmise was pressured by her self BF to deal with the child her fathered, but in any case it was wrong. Yet in our state she could have aborted the infant up to birth.

, under a recent law effective November 8, 2026, an abortion can be performed in Massachusetts at any point in a pregnancy based on the professional judgment of a physician. any abortion after 24 weeks is left entirely to the professional judgment of the physician

But if something is growing inside you due to a procreative act you choose to engage in (in 99% of cases), which, as a result of its uniquely human DNA, is rapidly becoming manifest to be a human life, and will normally function as such, with even a preterm survival rate of 70% to 85% by 25 weeks, then it is a human life, and not some cancerous growth or mere vestigial organ. Which in over 60% of abortions, is now treated as sewage.

Neither is a "they baby," without a biological identity which is left to be chosen by the human being, neither it it to be induced to engage in fornication, esp. homosexual fornication, which has been primarily responsible for up to 81% of new HIV cases among men, and over 750,000 American deaths.

That being just the physical costs, while the spiritual are far worse without effectual repentant, heart-purifying, justifying faith in the risen Lord Jesus, the divine Son of the Father, to save by His sinless shed blood, to the glory of God.

And we wonder why God is removing the "cadmium rods" from the national "reactor," allowing a "progressive" immoral meltdown.

Now a word from 504 Gateway Time-out

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