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On Friday, a jury found Alexis Avila, 19, of Hobbs guilty of abuse of a child relating in great bodily harm and attempted murder in the first degree. In January of 2022, Avila was caught on camera throwing her newborn, dubbed Baby Saul, in a dumpster outside the Rig Outfitters and Home Store in Hobbs. He was wrapped in a trash bag. Fortunately, three people dug through the dumpster to find him, and he was rushed to the hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Baby Saul is “happy and healthy today living with family,” according to reports. “Officers with the Hobbs Police...

Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger children should be able to choose euthanasia under proposals from members of Belgium's coalition government. The plans to extend rules allowing doctors to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" comes amid heated Belgian debate on the issue. Under existing Belgian laws, in place since 2002, patients, other than newborn babies, must be over 18 to qualify for assisted suicide, a situation that Bart Tommelein, leader of Belgium Liberals, wants changed. Mr Tommelein, whose party is...

An overweight teenager who managed to hide her pregnancy stabbed her baby to death after giving birth on the laundry room floor, local media reports. The baby was found with 135 stab wounds in a trash can outside a suburban Minneapolis home, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on Friday. Nicole Beecroft, 17, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday after an anonymous tip led police to her home. The teenager initially told police that she went to the bathroom at about 3am on Monday because "something didn't feel right". Thinking the trash had been collected already, Beecroft said she gave birth on...