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Police: Teen who suffocated infant dumped baby at Strip hotel in 2006
Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 | 11:23 a.m.
Carmela Camero
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A 19-year-old woman in the Henderson Detention Center being held without bail and accused of killing her newborn son had also dumped another baby in a trash bin a Las Vegas Strip hotel in 2006, Metro Police said.
Carmela Camero and her family were staying at the Mirage on a vacation from Reno when she gave birth and left the baby's body wrapped in towels in a hotel trash bin, police said. She was 16 years old at the time and her name wasn't made public because of her age.
Officer Barbara Morgan said the coroner at the time determined the baby was stillborn, so no further charges will be filed against the woman.
Henderson Police spokesman Todd Rasmussen said today his department was working with Metro Police in a continuing investigation.
Henderson Police arrested Camero on a single charge of murder Wednesday night and booked her into the Henderson Detention Center.
It appears that the woman, who lived with her mother and step-father, feared her mother would be angry with her for having a baby without first getting married, a police report said. She was also afraid her mother would throw her out of the house and she and the baby boy would live in poverty, the report said.
She is accused of suffocating the infant after giving birth to the baby Sunday at her home on Desert Pond Avenue, near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Paradise Hills Drive, Henderson Police spokesman Keith Paul said.
She called a hospital Monday morning saying she delivered the baby and the baby stopped breathing. Police and paramedics went to the home and found the newborn was dead.
St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, called Henderson Police after receiving a call from Camero shortly before noon Monday, the police report said.
Henderson detectives continued to investigate the death. Camero changed her story several times, police said.
After talking with Camero again Wednesday night, detectives accused her of hiding the pregnancy, delivering the child by herself in the home and then killing the child.
Camero said in an early interview that the baby appeared alright and she stayed with him all night. She said he died about five hours after she gave birth in a bathtub at the house. She said she did not know she was pregnant, started having back pains, and took a hot bath to ease the pain. She said the baby arrived head first, but it took five to seven minutes for her to complete the birth, and she feared he had swallowed some of the bath water, the report said.
Then Wednesday night, when Camero was interviewed again, she told detectives she feared that her mother would be angry at her for having the child out of wedlock. A Henderson Police officer found bleach and a mop in the bathroom where the birth took place, an arrest report said.
Camero said the baby did not cry as he lay on the bed, but he was breathing. She left him on the bed, wrapped in towels and surrounded by blankets, to go to the store to buy clothes, a suction bulb and diapers. When she returned, the baby was still breathing, but he was less responsive.
She tried to suction the baby's mouth, but nothing came out, the police report said. As she lay with the infant, he began to make coughing sounds. She didn't want his noises to alert her mother, so she forced the baby's face to her chest, she told police. She said she knew bringing him that close would stop his breathing and he would eventually die.
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What will the apologists for her say now? Courts can have men chemically castrated. Can the same be done for women on a temporary basis? This woman should not be having children, not at least until she is far older. Until then, she's a threat to her own offspring. She also deserves the full wrath of the law. The excuse that she may not have even known what was happening to her own body -which was never valid- is even more implausible now.
Get her off the streets, into the state pen for homicide, and prevent her from becoming pregnant for a decade, if medically possible.
On another count, who have been the fathers of these disposed babies? How do they fit in?
They should have tied her tubes after the first incident. (Sorry if this is harsh)
DTJ
Fathers have no rights concerning their children; the mother has the absolute right to kill that child right up until delivery.
Then miraculously, fathers suddenly obtain rights concerning their children, ie. the right to support them until they are 18 or 21 in some instances.
OK, so maybe, just maybe, you can offer a defense for the first incident. But two babies killed by this girl/woman, this is truly indefensible.
May God have mercy on her, and her two little ones.
This is really, really sad.
Sad. Sad. TWICE she gets pregnant. and so many people wanting to have babies and can't or want to adopt and this woman has two, one she throws away and one she kills.
yes, may God have mercy on her
This girl is an absolute demon! This girl is beyond evil. One baby in the trash can and the other one suffocated to death. My God how does someone become such an evil monster?
Ok two babies have died at her hands and that's enough. Either she needs to go to prison for killing them or never allowed to have sex again or both. Clearly she has some mental issues and the family is to blame as well. She needs help now before this thing happens again. I think prison is a good place for her to get the help she needs.
This fruit loop will get out of jail in a couple of years and do it all over again!
The mother of the accused needs to be investigated too. She clearly has failed as a mother. But might the daughter also be protecting the mother? That the mother didn't know her own daughter was pregnant -twice now- is not believable.
Go after the mother, too.
I agree, go after the mother. She should have got this girl some counseling at least if not some birth control. Don't they still have that shot or the implantable birth control thats good for a year or so? Her mother should be charged with endangerment and neglect, she is obviously not looking out for the well being of her daughter and now two lost grandkids?
I'm not going to click on "suggest removal." I going to say right here in the open that Thumper's above post is less than worthless and that Thumper should get booted from these forums for about a week, for always having stupid, anti-social posts.
Pull it together, Thumper, or it's open season on stupid rabbits.
Anyone else suspicious of the stepfather?
Gosh, what did Thumper say? That removal was freaky fast.
I'm getting hungry for some reason. Time for a samwich.
This girl is 19 and legally an adult.
She may have a crappy mom, she might just be a crappy daughter, but she is an adult and responsible for her own actions. At 16, that was a different story. Today, she should go to prison and get sterilized before she is ever allowed to harm another child.
This girl is twisted and evil! I don't know how she sleeps at night. You would think she might have learned something from her first dead baby. I wonder now if that baby really was stillborn or murdered.
Thumper,
Nah, your post which got deleted, was just plain rotten and advanced no intelligent point.
As for the issues of abortion, or illegal aliens, this story has to do with neither.
I do happen to have a problem with illegals, by the way. You'll see me mention that, when it's relevant to the story. Though I don't know, I'm guessing the girl in this story is an American citizen of Philippine heritage. Either way, let's stay on point and stay civilized on the forums.
DTJ
She should be in prison until well past her child-bearing years.
This woman has no business anywhere near a child. The child was living, breathing and postpartum.
Ban abortion and birth-control, and expect to get more of this. Still, she needs to go to jail for a very long time.
This 19 year old, her mother, and father should be strung up and hung by the LAs Vegas sign. Show an example that parents are responsible for their kids. STUPID PEOPLE.
Parents are not responsible for children once they turn 18!
Will someone please fix this "woman" so she can no longer have babies? What a sick, sick person.
Has law enforement looked into who is fathering these kids? There must be a reason why she is chucking them in trash cans besides 'Im afraid mommie will be mad'. Step dad huh? Hmm..
"prom night dumpster ba-by".
Worthless skank.
This is first degree murder period! I was a little naive at the first post but WTF. Could you imagine having this person at your house
The more I read this story ,It truly breaks my heart.
The coronor never determined how the first baby died! It has never been confirmed that it was stillborn.
She probably got away with it the first time, and figured it could work again! Put this crazy killer in prison!
off too prison, enought said. does she have mental problem. she could have taken the baby too the local fire station. their other option than murder. carmela
Some people just don't put a value on life. This is one of those people. Saddam Hussein, Tojo, Hitler,Ghengis Khan, Mussolini, all shared the same philosophy. There is no saving this girl. She just does not feel the value of life.
It's shocking to see how many people come up with different assumptions about somebody they don't know. I wouldn't go as far as to say that she's evil. She may have been in denial, especially since the death of her stillborn baby. The media makes her out to be this selfish, uneducated person and made it seem like she killed 2 newborns. If she really did kill the first one, she would've already been in jail. It seems like she was more scared of her mother and what people would think of her, that she acted on an irrational impulse.
this girl obviously didn't learn after her first pregnancy, and won't learn again. No one will ever believe her lie about not knowing she was pregnant a second time. She deserves no sympathy or even pity.
anonymous,
The coroner could not determine that the first child was stillborn. The police had to take this girl at her word. It is entirely possibly she murdered two newborns, but it is certain she murdered at least one. This girl is evil.
what really gets me is the people on here saying she was afraid of her mother,thats bull she is out of control it worked once why not twice.the first case needs to be reopened and she needs to be tried for that also,do we have a serial killer mom on our hands,was the child not old enough to have rights,doesn't seem the law has taken this case to the full extent,maybe they feel sorry for her and let it go the fact is the first one was dumped in a trash can why no charges for that,how many more children will she in her lifetime get a chance to kill.stop being so soft DA do what you are suppose to....
All she needs is a hug...really close to a chest, until she closes her eyes and stops breathing...how peaceful. And the world goes on without a two time murderer.
It's easy to make 'em, much harder to raise them. All you Christian whack jobs forget what it was like being young, with all the peer pressure. A friend of mine had her 16 year old daughter get stupid, and the next day, we went to get the morning after pill. And all is fine now. Wake up, you dopes, and realize that stuff happens, guys don't care, and for thirty bucks or so, the problem is solved. And FU, Catholic Church, you band of serial molesters....
These comments are considered worthy of contributing to intelligent observation and reflection?
So you're outraged. Is that going to change this situation? Do you know all the facts?
The comments say more about the demeanor of this community than it does this situation and it sure isn't pretty. Thank God y'all aren't allowed to stone people and we have "trials" for things like this.
Can we throw this "girl" down the Mirage garbage shoot?
Maybe we can place this person in a convent. So we know for sure she couldn't get pregnant place that has nothing but nuns.
Death penalty.
"So you're outraged. Is that going to change this situation? Do you know all the facts?"
You mean beyond the fact that she threw one baby in the trash that the coroner could not determine was stillborn or alive, and she smothered another baby to death?
I'm not sure that there's anything else to know.
She is 19 years old...not a child. Time to face the music of being a double murderer...
The first time she through her own baby in a trash I understand she was scary and didnt know what to do.Thank God the baby didnt die. Now she did worst than the first time she suffocate the baby to kill him. She is sick and cold person.I am not convence that she didnt know she was pregnant.She deserves no sympathy.Hope she spent a good time in jail.
wow.
how can someone have the heart to do such
a thing like that? i just had a miscarriage
5 days ago and i feel so horrible and depressed and i come to read that this GIRL killed her
own 2 kids... what a heartless thing..
Life in prison without "any" chance of parole is the least this sick person should get..the least.
That was pre-meditation, she wanted to kill the baby before her mommy got home. She can get the death penality for this time.
She should have 'pre-meditated' real hard about getting pregnant the second time.
I also dont buy that she did not know she was pregnant. Thats BS. You miss your period for nine months and your tummy gets swollen, you wouldnt think you're pregnant? Duh.
This is not just sad, its pitiful.
One way or another, this woman should not be allowed custody of children.
She should either undergo voluntary sterilization or have a court imposed order that restricts her from ever having custody of children again, along with a prison sentence.
This is not an abortion issue, this is about murder of a child.
Wow, nice to see that you all have all the information you need to convict and execute this minor. I would hate to see what this country would be like if you people allowed to enforce your beliefs on the law system. And yes I said "minor", you are not an adult in the eyes of the law until you turn 21. Under 18 you are a juvenile. Yes you can be tried as an adult but under 21 is still a minor.
This "woman" looked like a fat swollen spoiled pig and acted as such. Afraid of your parents because you can't talk to them because they arr too busy with their own lives to take care of kids is what is truely scary. Think the woman's parents should of not had the daughter too. Alas, we'll see this little Jerry Springer play go on & on.
One baby was bad enough. Now 2? She is insane. She is not right mentally to be having babies. If she didn't want those babies she could've taken them to a hospital or fire station or NOT EVEN BE HAVING SEX IN THE FIRST PLACE!! If you can't handle the consequences of sex don't be doing it. I could never imagine dumping my child in a trash bin. And the fact that she KILLED her SECOND child is just...there's no word to explain it. So many people try to have their own children while this girl throws one away and kills the other?
And the parents??? how could you not know your daughter was pregnant??? the first time? the second time?????? I mean, cmon!!! She was right under their noses!! They're at fault too. This girl is messed up in the head, and so are the parents.
Look at her myspace page: www.myspace.com/wadescamero
Her status says: annoyed.
Why is she annoyed? Because she's finally going to pay for what she did? She is a MURDERER!! BABY KILLER!!!! She should get the death penalty!!!!!!