A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her newborn baby and carrying him around in a shopping bag.
Tiona Rodriguez, 21, told a Manhattan court that she delivered a baby boy when she was 17 in a bathroom of a friend’s apartment in 2013, and immediately smothered the child.
Prosecutors said Rodriguez then sent a text saying she would “dig a hole, put it somewhere, lol, then we go eat IHOP.”
She was later stopped by security at a Victoria’s Secret in Herald Square, New York, after being accused of stealing a pair of jeans.
The guard discovered the baby’s body in her bag after noticing a foul odor, authorities said.
Rodriguez confessed as part of a manslaughter plea deal to reduce her prison sentence to 16 years. She was previously facing a murder charge that carried a life sentence.
She is expected to be sentenced on Feb. 6.
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