HOBBS, N.M. (KRQE) – A Hobbs woman appealing her guilty conviction of child abuse was in court for a motion hearing on Wednesday, September 27. In court, 19-year-old Alexis Avila was denied her ...

A young mother charged with tossing her newborn baby in a dumpster behind a New Mexico shopping center has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Alexis Avila was caught on camera dumping her newborn ...

HOBBS, N.M. — According to documents obtained by NewsWest 9, Alexis Avila's team is appealing the jury's decision to sentence her to 18 years with 2 years suspended. Avila was found guilty of abuse of ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Alexis Avila is scheduled to be sentenced next week for throwing her baby into a Hobbs dumpster last year. She faces a maximum of 18 years after a jury found her guilty earlier ...

A New Mexico judge sentenced a 19-year-old mom to 16 years in prison Monday for leaving her newborn baby in a dumpster. Jurors convicted Alexis Avila of child abuse involving great bodily harm over a ...

Alexis Avila – the Hobbs woman convicted of child abuse for throwing her baby in a dumpster – is getting out of jail. Avila is appealing the ruling and requested to be released while that process ...

The teenage mother caught on surveillance footage allegedly tossing her newborn baby alive into a dumpster in New Mexico has claimed she “panicked” when she gave birth just one day after learning she ...

LEA COUNTY, New Mexico (KMID/KPEJ) — Jury selection began Tuesday in New Mexico as Alexis Avila, a young mother from Hobbs, headed to court; she stands accused of abandoning her newborn son in a ...

HOBBS, New Mexico (KVIA) -- In a New Mexico court room Monday, Alexis Avila was sentenced to 16 years in prison. She had been convicted of first-degree attempted murder last month. Avila is accused of ...

HOBBS, New Mexico (KCBD/Gray News) - A New Mexico judge sentenced a woman found guilty of throwing her newborn son into a dumpster to 16 years in prison. The sentence came down Monday from Judge ...