A college student accused of allowing her newborn to soak in the toilet before a school play is said to have told police that as she watched her child drown, she “hoped the child would die soon.”
ClickOrlando.com obtained the 911 call and body camera footage Anne Mae DemegilloHe was arrested on Friday, March 6.
Demegillo’s friend had called 911, worried about him and demanding a social welfare check. “My friend told me that she was secretly pregnant and in the morning she gave birth,” said the friend explaining to the messengers. “He says these things and seems to be very mentally separated from them.”
Police say Demegillo, 20, gave birth to a toddler in the toilet of her Palm Coast home and left the baby in the toilet to die.
“He reported that he saw the baby moving in the toilet with its head slightly submerged, heard it crying, and waited until it stopped moving and crying,” read the charging documents accompanying no. Us Weekly. “He stated that after believing that the baby was no longer alive, he removed the body with a towel and put it in a bag and kept it in his bedroom.”
Police say Demegillo then went to class at his school and later did a production of Anything Goes.
After that, he returned to the house where he lived with his mother and buried the child in a shallow grave behind the house.
Demegillo was arrested for involuntary manslaughter of a child.
Charging documents say Demegillo gave police a shovel to use to bury the body and then led them to the grave. The police noticed that the child’s leg was sticking out of the ground.
Forensic investigators have been called in to exhume the remains of a newborn baby.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly told reporters on Monday, March 9, the police do not believe Demegillo’s statement that she did not know she was pregnant, noting the messages she received as evidence against what she said.
It was not immediately clear which college Demegillo attends.
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Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Joe Barile She said the baby who died weighed 3 pounds, 6 ounces, and the investigation into the child’s death is ongoing.
He also took a moment to remind people that Florida’s Safe Place Act protects parents who cannot care for a newborn and gives them the opportunity to safely surrender a baby at any fire station, hospital or police station.
“This is a tragic tragedy for our community, for the family involved, and an emotionally difficult case for our team,” Staly said in a statement. “I want to remind our community, especially our expectant mothers: Florida law allows you to bring a baby at birth to a local fire station, hospital or law enforcement agency and donate the baby. That is a much better solution than what we are investigating today – for everyone involved, but most importantly the baby that was denied the life it deserves. May God bless this baby on the ground and never find a loving baby and comfort his hands on earth.”
Demegillo was held without bond.
Anyone with information related to the investigation is asked to call the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office at (386) 313-4911.
