A teen was convicted guilty of killing her newborn child.
On March 23, 2019, 19-year-old Paris Mayo murdered her infant baby Stanley at her parents’ house in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
After the Worcester Crown Court jury deliberated for eight hours and 38 minutes, the defendant sobbed in the witness box.
The court had previously been informed that Mayo gave birth to Stanley in a living room by herself when she was only 15 years old.
Before going to bed, she assaulted Stanley and shoved cotton wool balls down his neck. She then placed his body in a trash bag and left it on the front step.
Mayo’s mother found the child the next morning when she looked inside the bloodstained bag and immediately called 999, the court was told.
The teenager had earlier denied causing Stanley’s complex skull fractures, thought to have been caused by her foot on his head, and claimed her son was already dead when he was born.
She was charged last year following an investigation by West Mercia Police.
Following the verdict, judge Mr Justice Garnham remanded Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, into custody to be sentenced on Monday June 26.