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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A Davenport woman is facing charges after police say she gave birth in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics bathroom then tried to flush the baby down the toilet because she thought it was stillborn.

It happened Sunday around 9:24 p.m. in a restroom at the John Colloton Pavillion at the hospital complex. A criminal complaint filed in Johnson County states 22-year-old Ashley Hautzenrader, of Davenport, entered the bathroom and delivered a baby in the toilet.

Hautzenrader said she did not know she was pregnant when she entered the restroom and thought the baby was dead because it didn’t cry. She tried flushing the baby down the toilet, but then put the baby in a pillowcase, which she placed in the trash can.

The complaint says she cleaned the bathroom and then left.

UIHC employees later found the baby, alive.

Officers were able to locate Hautzenrader and she allegedly admitted to putting the baby in the trash, claiming she thought the child was dead. She also told them she wasn’t aware she was pregnant.

State online court records from May of 2015 show an order establishing paternity and support for a child Hautzenrader previously gave birth to.

She now faces one count of child endangerment, an aggravated misdemeanor. Hautzenrader was being held in the Johnson County Jail but was released Tuesday morning.

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