Chicago mom charged after dead newborn found in bag

CHICAGO - Police in Chicago have arrested an 18-year-old woman for allegedly placing her newborn son in a plastic bag and leaving him outside, reports CBS Chicago. The child was later found dead.

Ana Rosa Mora was taken into custody on Friday - days after the dead child was discovered - and charged with first-degree murder, according to the station.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Mora, a high school senior, gave birth to the boy early in the morning on April 19. Prosecutors alleged that the suspect placed the newborn outside her home in a plastic Walmart bag and then went back to bed. They also accused Mora of killing the baby out of fear that her boyfriend would break up with her.

Prosecutors said Mora told police the child looked like her ex-boyfriend, who was in fact the boy's father, and worried that her current boyfriend would make the same realization and leave her.

According to the paper, a construction worker found the infant a few hours after it was abandoned, on a gangway on the North Hamlin Avenue block of Chicago. The Cook County medical examiner's office determined that the child was born alive and died of asphyxia and possible exposure.