DC Woman Accused of Dismembering Her Newborn Son is Indicted: Report

WASHINGTON, DC — Federal prosecutors have indicted a D.C. woman accused of strangling, drowning and dismembering her newborn son in a bathtub back in 2013.

Police charged 24-year-old Lillian Alvarado with multiple counts include first-degree murder and cruelty to children, according to a Washington Post report.

Police were called to the 6400 block of 14th Street NW on Nov. 28, 2013, and found an unconscious baby boy. Police arrested Alvarado, who was 21 at the time, on Jan. 23, 2014.

The indictment, as quoted by the Post, states that the baby was born alive, but Alvarado strangled the infant and tried to drown him, and then partially dismembered him in order to flush him down the toilet. The crime was discovered when bloody water leaked into the apartment below, and police found the body of the infant in the bathtub, the indictment states.

Alvarado reportedly told her father that the baby was born dead, but the D.C. medical examiner's officer later ruled that the boy had been born alive and then was asphyxiated and dismembered. Alvarado lived with relatives in a third-floor apartment at the address.

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