Artesia Hospital employee who discovered Alexee Trevizo’s child says toilet was a ‘conflict zone’

The hospital cleaner who found the lifeless physique of Alexee Trevizo’s new child son says she has been ‘traumatized’ by the bloody scene she encountered after the highschool cheerleader secretly gave start. 

Lila Lewis, a housekeeper at Artesia Normal Hospital, in New Mexico, recalled the horrifying second she discovered the 19-year-old’s child wrapped in a plastic bag discarded within the backside a WC trash can, in an unique interview with DailyMail.com. 

The hospital staffer was known as to wash the ladies’s restroom close to the emergency room within the early morning hours after Trevizo had quietly gone into labor on January 27.

However earlier than she had even walked in to start the job, Lewis stated, she may see one thing was horribly fallacious. 

Lila Lewis instructed police of the horrifying second she found a useless toddler in a trash can when she was known as to wash the ladies’s restroom on the Artesia Normal Hospital’s emergency room after Alexee Trevizo gave start on January 27

The highschool senior may be seen holding her bottom whereas working to the lavatory simply moments earlier than giving start at Artesia Normal Hospital on January 27 

Alexee Trevizo, 19, has claimed she was not conscious that she was pregnant earlier than giving start to her son 

‘I observed there have been bloody footprints outdoors the door earlier than I entered the lavatory, I did not know what to anticipate once I entered,’ she instructed DailyMail.com.

‘The toilet appeared like a conflict zone, blood was all over the place, on the partitions, again of the bathroom on the flooring. It was one of many worst scenes I’ve ever seen in my life. 

‘There was blood spatter all over the place, it was like one thing you’ll see in a horror film.

‘Once I walked in, I requested myself: “What occurred in right here?”.’ 

Lewis – who described the scene to police as ‘a gory, bloody, bloodbath mess’ – stated she wasn’t conscious of what had occurred and that she had by no means heard of Alexee Trevizo till she was interviewed by police.  

‘I began wiping down partitions, mopping the ground and cleansing the again of the bathroom, I’ve by no means seen a lot blood in my life,’ stated, Lewis. 

‘There was a lot blood I needed to clear the whole lot twice.’

What occurred subsequent is what Lewis stated is a reminiscence she’ll always remember. ‘I am nonetheless traumatized by the scenario.’ 

She was cleansing up and needed to transfer a conveyable, customary dimension beige plastic trash can that was within the toilet.

Lewis stated the trash bin was a couple of toes tall. It was when she went to maneuver the bin that she observed it ‘felt heavier than regular.’ 

 Trevizo and her mom, Rosa Rodriguez, within the hospital on the day she gave start. They each insisted they didn’t know she was pregnant when police confronted them about discovering the toddler’s physique in a trash can

Shortly after Trevizo exited the bathroom, a cleaner made the surprising discovery of the useless child within the garbage can

The cleaner who made the horrific discovery is seen being consoled on this image by two different members of employees, earlier than she was led away from the scene

Lewis stated she started to rummage by way of the bin to see what was responsible for it so arduous to maneuver. 

She stated it’s normal for cleansing employees to retailer new rubbish baggage on the backside of the bin so the liners may be simply changed when the trash is eliminated. 

She initially thought the additional weight was a results of somebody storing too many empty liners on the backside of the can. 

However when she reached the underside, she discovered a child wrapped in a transparent plastic bag.

She believes Trevizo may need eliminated the present trash bag that was within the bin and located a brand new liner on the backside to dump the child in, earlier than burying it and putting the primary trash bag over it.

‘For a cut up second I did not notice what I noticed, it was a dull youngster face down in a trash bag. I by no means noticed the face of the child solely the again of its head and brown hair. 

‘The child was about 1 ½ ft in size, there wasn’t lots of blood on the child, the pores and skin was pink/purple shade.

‘I used to be sickened what I noticed, I used to be in shock, I may barely speak. I instructed a couple of nurses there’s a child within the trash.’ 

‘A nurse grabbed the trash bin with the kid nonetheless in it to the trauma heart the place later the child boy later was pronounced useless.’

Nonetheless in shock from what she had simply found, Lewis left the lavatory to compose herself.

{The teenager} had been taken to the hospital that night time after complaining of again ache, however instructed employees she was not pregnant and had common intervals,  in line with the arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com

In her interview with police, Lewis described discovering ‘a gory, bloody, bloodbath mess’ 

‘I am nonetheless suffered from PTSD from what I witnessed. Some days are higher than others. I am going to always remember that picture of that harmless lifeless youngster. 

‘I’m wondering what was going by way of the particular person’s thoughts after they determined to wrap a child in a trash bag and dump it right into a can like a bit of rubbish.’

Lewis, who stated she witnessed her boyfriend shoot himself within the head in 2018, says she now has to take care of the trauma from this incident too. 

‘I used to be traumatized over that for a very long time and now this. It is quite a bit to deal with.’

Trevizo was arrested and charged with homicide in Could, three and a half months after giving start, after an post-mortem report revealed the child boy had air in his lungs when he died, suggesting he was alive and respiratory when he was born. 

Based on police reviews, the new child died from ‘entrapment’ – which happens when a person is in an hermetic container or comparatively hermetic container, on this case, a tied plastic bag, consumes all the out there oxygen till there is no such thing as a longer sufficient oxygen to maintain life.’

{The teenager} had been taken to the hospital that night time after complaining of again ache, in line with the arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com.

She instructed nursing employees she was not pregnant, had common intervals and was not sexually lively. 

Attorneys for the teenager say she didn’t know she was anticipating. 

But as reported by DailyMail.com, pals and classmates of the highschool cheerleader have since come ahead to assert that Trevizo knew she was pregnant together with her boyfriend Devyn Fierro and had even picked out a reputation for her son.

Detective’s confirmed ‘Child Doe’ was cremated in February and his stays have been despatched to Alexee

Police proof information listing the decadent’s title as ‘Alex Fierro’ 

Classmates described Alexee, a cheerleader relationship fellow senior Devyn Fierro, as ‘a grasp manipulator to everybody’ who had a number of pals however only a few shut ones 

‘She named the child boy, the one she is accused of killing, Alex Fierro,’ stated one former buddy. 

College students who spoke to DailyMail.com requested to not be recognized as a result of in Artesia, with its inhabitants of simply 12,000, ‘everybody is aware of everybody’. 

They stated that Alexee claimed that she had placed on weight, not as a result of she was anticipating however as a result of she had began taking the contraceptive capsule. 

 A buddy added: ‘She knew she was pregnant and hid it from virtually everybody.

‘She instructed me she had simply gained weight as a result of she was ”on the capsule”.’ 

Classmates stated that rumors about her being pregnant began swirling in November final yr, when she would have been round seven-months pregnant. 

‘Alexee needed to have heard the rumors about her, Devyn and the child, however by the way in which she acted it is as if she did not have a care on the earth,’ stated one schoolfriend.

One other buddy stated Alexee would deny the rumors ‘to anybody who would ask.’

‘A cheerleading coach even requested her if she was anticipating and Alexee once more blamed her weight acquire on taking contraception capsules,’ the classmate stated. 

Classmates at Artesia Excessive Faculty who spoke to DailyMail.com say rumors started to run rampant that Alexee Trevizo (pictured proper three weeks earlier than she gave start) was pregnant, however the 19-year-old brushed them off and blamed her weight acquire on the contraception capsule

Alexee and boyfriend Devyn Fierro, her child’s father, at Artesia Excessive Faculty Promenade on April 22 – 12 weeks after she gave start to their new child son and put him within the trash in a hospital toilet

‘We did not wish to get into her enterprise, the very last thing you wish to ask somebody who seems like they’ve gained weight is that if they have been pregnant,’ stated one other buddy. 

However reflecting again, the buddies say all final yr Alexee wore ‘saggy kind’ clothes the place in earlier years she hadn’t.

Hospital employees, together with cleaners who discovered the lifeless toddler within the garbage can after she gave start, shared harrowing, graphic accounts of what they encountered, in video interviews published earlier this week. 

Among the many most startling descriptions got here from a nursing assistant named solely as Lori who instructed the detectives the way it appeared as if Alexee had ‘ripped the umbilical twine like an animal’.

Based on police information, Alexee’s child was cremated, and she or he now has possession of the cremains.

Police proof paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com additionally reveal that the title of the ‘decedent’ is listed as ‘Alex Fierro.’ 

Alexee is at the moment on $100,000 bail after a decide allowed her to return to high school to graduate. Her subsequent courtroom date is on September 11, 2023.

Devyn Fierro has not been charged.