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UPDATE 1\/12\/22:\u00a0<\/strong>The paternal grandfather of the baby boy thrown into a dumpster in New Mexico on January 7 has said he will fight for custody of his grandson. New details in the case also revealed that 18-year-old Alexis Avila did<\/em> know she was pregnant before experiencing contractions the day before she gave birth in her parents bathroom, put her baby in two garbage bags, and tossed him into a dumpster. She was caught on video.<\/p>\n

Oscar Astorga told the Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0that the family wants custody. “Of course we’re trying to get custody. Of course. He is my grandson,” he said. “That’s why we can’t comment on anything because we’re trying to get my grandson.” He said his 16-year-old son Stephen, the baby’s father, knew that Alexis was pregnant but she had told him she had a miscarriage. He didn’t know about the baby until he saw the video of Alexis throwing him in the dumpster.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to tell you a lot of things,” said Astorga. “I’m a God-fearing man. I just can’t comment right now. There’s a lot of people on social media that have been sending death threats to our family. We haven’t done anything wrong.”<\/p>\n

Martha Avila, Alexis’ mother, said she didn’t know her daughter was pregnant and they won’t be sharing their story. “People can talk and give their opinion,” she said. “Everybody makes mistakes. People can preach all they want, they can judge all they want but we only care about the judgment of one.”<\/p>\n

Friends of Alexis have contradicted her story that she didn’t know she was pregnant and “panicked” after giving birth, saying that she had been “open about her pregnancy” at school. “I heard her talk about being pregnant about late September, early October,” one classmate said. “She never expressed that it was a bad thing that she was pregnant.”<\/p>\n

1\/12\/22:<\/strong> A teenage mother is facing charges after she put her newborn baby boy inside a trash bag and tossed him into a dumpster outside a store on January 7 in Hobbs, New Mexico. The baby boy was in the dumpster for more than five hours before being rescued by people who found him while searching through the dumpster.<\/p>\n

According to KRQE<\/a>, Alexis Avila, 18 years old, admitted to putting the baby in the dumpster after security footage from the store, Rig Outfitters, was reviewed. She is facing first-degree felony charges of attempted murder and child abuse.\u00a0The baby boy was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Lubbock.<\/p>\n

Police said that Avila had not known she was pregnant until the day before she gave birth. She was experiencing abdominal pain on January 6 and learned she was pregnant when she sought treatment for that pain. She gave birth to the baby the following day in a bathroom at her parents’ home. She said she cut the umbilical cord and put the baby in a trash bag, which also had trash in it, and then put that bag into a larger black trash bag.<\/p>\n

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