A 16-year-old teen is being accused of killing her newborn baby, after shoving a rock down her throat.

Police said that Alaya Dotson, of Denver, allegedly put the rock in the baby’s throat an hour after giving birth.

Police said that Dotson explained she was unaware of her pregnancy and realized she was giving birth while using the bathroom in her home in September.

Dotson said that after giving birth she took the newborn up to her room and laid on the floor next to the infant, Fox News reported.

The girl told police that the baby girl’s arms were “moving back and forth, but she was not crying.”

Dotson said to authorities that she wrapped the baby in a blanket and went outside onto her patio where she put a rock in the newborn’s throat.

Reports said that Dotson’s mother found the 16-year-old outside with “a lot of blood on her shirt” and noticed blood on the blanket that the infant was wrapped in.

Dotson’s Mother called police, but the teen allegedly told her the baby girl was already dead.

The baby was taken to the hospital where a one-inch rock was removed from her throat. She died later that morning, Fox News reported.

Dotson reportedly told police she suffocated the newborn.

The teen has now been charged with murder and will be tried as an adult, according to reports.

Tragic: 14-Year-Old Model Dies After Working In Gruelling 12-Hour Chinese Fashion Show

A 14-year-old Russian model has died after a grueling 12-hour fashion show in China.

Vlada Dzyuba reportedly collapsed just before walking out onto the catwalk in Shanghai, The Siberian Times reported.

The teen was found to be suffering from chronic meningitis “compounded by severe exhaustion” and remained in a coma for two days before she passed away.

Vlada reportedly collapsed after her temperature soared while she was waiting for her next appearance.

It is believed tht the young model was too ‘scared’ to ask for medical help and was working well over her contract of a maximum three hours a week.

It is alleged that the 14-year-old was unable to be taken to hospital for treatment because she did not have medical insurance, despite being on a three-month contract with a prominent Chinese modeling agency.

It is unclear who is to blame for her not having medical insurance.

The recruitment of young female models in China is on the rise, often between 14 and 16,  from Russia and especially Siberia to work at catwalk shows.

The topic was uncovered in a documentary Extreme Model Factory by presenter Reggie Yates in his 2015 Extreme Russia series.

Vlada’s mother was not able to reach her daughter before she died, and she told the television programme NTV: “She was calling me, saying ‘Mama, I am so tired. I so much want to sleep.”

“I didn’t sleep myself and was calling her constantly, begging her to go to hospital ”she added.

Vlada’s family has contacted the Russian state to ask for help finding answers.

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