Teenage Mum Caught With Her Dead Baby in Shopping Bag While Shoplifting at the Mall (Photos)

Tiona Rodriguez is charged with second-degree murder in the death of her baby, who police found in a Victoria's Secret shopping bag she carried as she attempted to shoplift a pair of skinny jeans.

 

Tiona Rodriguez with the cops

 

Tiona Rodriguez ,18 from Brooklyn who was reportedly caught shoplifting at Victoria's secret mall has been charged with a second-degree murder in the death of her day old baby she stuffed in a big bag.

 

It would be recalled that the teenage mother was accosted at the mall by the police for stealing a pair of skinny jeans $44.50 pair of skinny jeans from the Herald Square store one day after her baby was born.

 

The police were shocked to discovered the dead baby in her bag as they tried to search for the contents of the bag. According to the investigators, that was her 4th time of getting pregnant and the accused has the habit of hiding her pregnancies from her family and friends till the day of delivery. She reportedly had a secret plan with her boyfriend who agreed with her to dispose the baby.

 

The bag where Tiona Rodriguez shoved the dead baby

 

Tiona Rodriguez successfully hid the pregnancy from her family and gave birth to the baby in her friend's bathroom, going through all the medical procedures on her own. She was on her way to bury the baby before she decided to take a detour at the shopping mall to steal which exposed her wicked act as reported by the police.

According to prosecutors, she fell pregnant at 14 and her family only discovered the truth when she was in labour in hospital. Rodriguez gave birth for the second time in 2012, aged 15. She is believed to have delivered the baby in her bathtub at home.

 

Victoria's Secret

Prosecutor Ferrari said: "She may have killed the baby, the baby may have been stillborn - but we know that she texted her boyfriend throughout the birth, ultimately telling him - it's dead.

"Then the two of them discussed via text getting rid of it. Smashing it up, so it didn't look like a body. Burning it. Meeting up to bury it."

She told no one after falling pregnant for the third time.

 

Scene of crime

 

Rodriguez's lawyer Earl Ward argued that both the second and third pregnancies resulted in miscarriages. He said his client was a "confused young girl who had no idea what to do with the fetus that was stillborn", the Daily News reported.

She was ordered held without bail by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Farber.

She faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted.