Left: Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam (Harris County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Authorities recovering Cux-Ajtzalam’s newborn from the dumpster (KTRK).
An 18-year-old mother in Texas has been arrested after she allegedly threw her newborn baby into a trash bag and tossed it in the dumpster, telling police she believed she had to do it or else her boyfriend would break up with her. Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of felony abandoning a child without the intent to return, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the District Court for Harris County, Cux-Ajtzalam on July 21, 2024, is accused of giving birth “on the ground behind the food truck where she works” and then taking the baby — referred to in documents as “John Doe” or “CW” — and placing him in “a tied garbage bag” and leaving him in a dumpster in the 6000 block of Dashwood Drive in Houston, Texas.
“(Defendant) put the child, placenta, & umbilical cord into a trash bag, took the trash bag to a dumpster, & left the child in the dumpster tied inside the trash bag,” a magistrate judge wrote in a bond order that included a brief narrative of what transpired.
Later, an individual walking past the dumpster heard the newborn crying and called 911. Officers with the Houston Police Department and emergency medical personnel at about 1:15 p.m. responded to the area and were able to recover the child from inside the dumpster.
