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Investigators say the Hamilton mother charged with killing her 5-week-old son and putting the body in a garbage can murdered the child to cover up who fathered the baby.
A grand jury has indicted Asuncion Avila-Villa, 26, for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. According to the indictment, the father is under the age of 16.
Villa is also charged with aggravated murder, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse.
"She's trying to get rid of the baby so no one will discover that the father was under the age of 16," said Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper.
Piper won't say anything about who the alleged father is. He says it was inevitable that someone would have eventually found Villa out.
Investigators tell 9 news Villa was on public assistance and if she wanted to keep getting it she had to help identify the father. They also say the baby, Israel Santos, was found dead just days before a DNA test was set to be conducted.
Santos was found in a plastic bag in a garbage can last week behind Villa's apartment building on Shuler Avenue.
Piper says he will seek the death penalty.
"I can't remember in the history of Butler County another indictment when a woman was.... alleged to be the principal offender in a capital punishment case but the facts of this case warrant this indictment," says Piper.
The coroner says Santos had skull fractures and a broken arm. Investigators found the baby after Villa called to report the infant was picked up by an ex-boyfriend and never brought back.
Detectives say she made up the story.
Authorities say they started looking for the baby after Villa called them on August 24 and tried to cover up what happened.
Villa told the 911 dispatcher: "I was just calling ‘cause ... one of my ex boyfriends came to pick up one of my sons ... He said he was going to take him. He hasn't come back yet."
Detectives worked the case all night before they found the baby in the garbage can on August 25.
Villa was arrested last week and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. She's being held on a one million dollar bond.
Now that the Grand Jury has added the charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor to that list, people who know Villa are appalled.
"I don't know the words to describe it. It's just gross," says Stephanie Boggs who lives across the street and held Santos the week before he died.
Villa also has three other children.
Villa will be back in court Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on the charges of the indictment.
Prosecutors: Mom Killed Baby To Hide Father's Age - Cincinnati breaking news, weather radar, traffic from 9News | Channel 9 WCPO.com
A grand jury has indicted Asuncion Avila-Villa, 26, for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. According to the indictment, the father is under the age of 16.
Villa is also charged with aggravated murder, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse.
"She's trying to get rid of the baby so no one will discover that the father was under the age of 16," said Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper.
Piper won't say anything about who the alleged father is. He says it was inevitable that someone would have eventually found Villa out.
Investigators tell 9 news Villa was on public assistance and if she wanted to keep getting it she had to help identify the father. They also say the baby, Israel Santos, was found dead just days before a DNA test was set to be conducted.
Santos was found in a plastic bag in a garbage can last week behind Villa's apartment building on Shuler Avenue.
Piper says he will seek the death penalty.
"I can't remember in the history of Butler County another indictment when a woman was.... alleged to be the principal offender in a capital punishment case but the facts of this case warrant this indictment," says Piper.
The coroner says Santos had skull fractures and a broken arm. Investigators found the baby after Villa called to report the infant was picked up by an ex-boyfriend and never brought back.
Detectives say she made up the story.
Authorities say they started looking for the baby after Villa called them on August 24 and tried to cover up what happened.
Villa told the 911 dispatcher: "I was just calling ‘cause ... one of my ex boyfriends came to pick up one of my sons ... He said he was going to take him. He hasn't come back yet."
Detectives worked the case all night before they found the baby in the garbage can on August 25.
Villa was arrested last week and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. She's being held on a one million dollar bond.
Now that the Grand Jury has added the charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor to that list, people who know Villa are appalled.
"I don't know the words to describe it. It's just gross," says Stephanie Boggs who lives across the street and held Santos the week before he died.
Villa also has three other children.
Villa will be back in court Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned on the charges of the indictment.
Prosecutors: Mom Killed Baby To Hide Father's Age - Cincinnati breaking news, weather radar, traffic from 9News | Channel 9 WCPO.com
