Federal prosecutors have indicted a D.C. woman who's accused of strangling, drowning and dismembering her newborn son after giving birth to him in a bathtub.
Prosecutors say Lillian Alvarado never told her family she was pregnant and tried to flush the partially dismembered infant down a toilet in her family's apartment in Northwest D.C. in November 2013.
The Washington Post reports that Alvarado, now 24, is expected to be arraigned Friday on multiple charges, including first-degree murder.
The baby's death was discovered after residents at an apartment building in the 6400 block of 14th Street Northwest complained about water leaking from an upstairs apartment on Thanksgiving Day 2013. When the water eventually turned red, they contacted D.C. Police.
Alvarado's public defenders have argued she is not mentally competent to be tried and should instead remain at a psychiatric hospital.
Psychiatrists have found Alvarado competent and she has been ordered to stand trial.
