Mum, 18, allegedly caught shoplifting at Victoria's Secret store with dead baby in bag

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CAUGHT: Tiona Rodriguez was charged with second degree murder

The 18-year-old girl – Tiona Rodriguez – was stopped on suspicion of stealing a pair of jeans from a Victoria's Secret store.
But when security searched her bag, they made a horrifying discovery.
The teenager was today charged with second degree murder over the incident.
She has pleaded not guilty but her lawyers claim the baby was stillbirth – and not murdered.

But prosecutor Rachel Ferrari said: "[Rodriguez] carried out the murder of her newborn infant and then callously shoved him in a bag with the plan of – in her words – 'take this s*** and dig a hole, put it somewhere, then we go eat International House of Pancakes.'"
The teen mum, from Brooklyn, US, is thought to have fallen pregnant in early 2013 – but worried her family would find out.

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CONCERN: Tiona Rodriguez is thought to have fallen pregnant in early 2013

Prosecutor Ferrari claims Rodriquez planned to kill the infant and "began plotting weeks before he was born" in 2013.
She gave birth at a friend's house in October 16 2013 and "ripped the cord with her bare hands".
Ferrari added: "He wasn't stillborn, he didn't die of natural causes. He was murdered in that bathroom."
Rodriguez is then accused of stuffing the baby's body into a shopping bag and setting out to dispose of it.
The shoplifting case collapsed last year when time ran out to try it before a court.

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STORE: The shoplifting case has since been dropped against Tiona Ro