Paris Mayo (left) has been found guilty of murdering her son Stanley (Picture: PA)
A teenager has been found guilty of murdering her newborn baby.
Paris Mayo, 19, killed her newborn son Stanley at her parents’ home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23 2019.
She cried in the dock after jurors at Worcester Crown Court took eight hours and 38 minutes of deliberation.
The court had previously heard Mayo was 15 when she gave birth to Stanley alone and unaided in a living room.
She assaulted Stanley and stuffed cotton wool balls down his throat before putting his body in a bin bag and leaving it on the front doorstep before going to bed.
Mayo’s mother found the child the next morning when she looked inside the bloodstained bag and immediately called 999, the court was told.
The teenager had earlier denied causing Stanley’s complex skull fractures, thought to have been caused by her foot on his head, and claimed her son was already dead when he was born.
She was charged last year following an investigation by West Mercia Police.
She will be sentenced on Monday June 26 (Picture: PA)
Following the verdict, judge Mr Justice Garnham remanded Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, into custody to be sentenced on Monday June 26.
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She was 15-years-old at the time of the murder.