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The Nebraska teen accused of throwing her baby out her window wrote “Who can do me a huge favor and has a car?” on Facebook minutes before the newborn died.
Antonia Lopez, 16, was charged as an adult Saturday with felony child abuse resulting in death following the prematurely born infant’s death, according to the Omaha Police Department. Her family reported her missing nine times between August and November 2015, and she was also convicted of theft last year.
Investigators said Lopez told her mother she threw the infant out of the second-story window of the family’s Izard Court apartment early Friday after she went into labor and gave birth. An emergency crew arrived at 4:12 a.m. following the mother’s 911 call, police said.
Antonia Lopez, 16, faces charges of felony child abuse resulting in death.
(Police Handout)
Yet Lopez had posted publicly on Facebook at 3:40 a.m. with the urgent question, along with three crying emoticons. Another user responded an hour later, “What's up.. I have a ride.”
Nebraska girl, 16, throws newborn out window to its death
“She killed her baby,” someone else replied. Lopez’s post had drawn over 400 comments by Monday afternoon.
This Facebook post appeared on her page minutes before an emergency crew rushed to her family's Omaha apartment early Friday.
(Antonia Lopez Facebook)
Police have said they will not release any more information about the newborn infant who died.
“The child wasn’t a stillborn,” Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine told the Omaha World-Herald. “To be booked on that count, the child would have had to have been born alive.”
Police said Lopez threw the infant from a second-floor window at the Kellom-Knolls Apartment complex.
(KMTV 3 News)
Staff at a local Walmart caught Lopez and another teen stealing cellphone cases last year, according to an arrest report cited by the local newspaper. Police said both girls refused to provide any information until one of their mothers’ identified them to investigators.
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Lopez received a sentence of at least six months of probation on charges of theft by unlawful taking and false information.
Police said Lopez told her mother what she had done and the mother dialed 911 around 4 a.m. on Friday.
(KMTV 3 News)
Her family reported her missing Aug. 27, 2015, although they said she was probably with her friends at the time, WOWT-TV reported. Her family told police she was nowhere to be found when they went to pick her up from her school, Central High School, that day.
Omaha police said the family filed missing persons reports for her nine times over a four-month span last year. The multiple missing persons reports are common for teen runaways, and the juvenile charges followed her Sept. 25 arrest, according to police.
Lopez was booked into the Douglas County Youth Center on the felony charges Saturday after receiving a medical exam at the same hospital where doctors pronounced the premature infant dead, police said.
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