A New Mexico teenage mother was sentenced to 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash dumpster.
Avila told the judge she wants to learn how to deal with stress and anxiety and said she regrets missing out on her son's first milestones.
"I regret his first hours of life were traumatic, and I regret that he will always have this in the back of his head and will think I do not love him because that's what he'll read and hear," she said."But that's not true at all. I do love him. I truly do."Police said a group of people were looking through the trash bin when they found the baby and tried to keep the boy warm until police and paramedics arrived.
Public defender Ibukun Adepoju disputed that Avila made a premeditated attempt to kill her baby. Abepoju said while Avila's actions were wrong, they were the result of her bipolar disorder and that she was disassociated and detached from her feelings.
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