A 16-year-old girl was arrested two days after she allegedly suffocated her infant daughter after giving birth at home, shoving a rock down the baby’s throat.

Alaya Dotson is being charged as an adult and remains in custody.

According to the Denver Coroner’s Office, Amekah Dotson was suffocated on Sept. 8, the same day she was born. The cause of the death was determined to be suffocation and the manner of death was homicide

Denver police investigators say Alaya’s mother called 911 after finding her daughter laying in the backyard and the baby wrapped in a bloody blanket.

Emergency workers transported Amekah from a home on the 5800 block of Biscay Street to Children’s Hospital Colorado at about 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 8.

Doctors removed a 1-inch rock from the infant’s throat and she was pronounced dead around 8:15 a.m.

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