Police released CCTV from inside the store (Picture: West Covina Police)

A woman gave birth in a toilet in fast food chain Subway then walked out leaving her baby behind, it was reported.

Police arrested Mary Grace Trinidad, aged 38, after they tracked her down by following a trail of blood down the Californian street on Monday.

They released CCTV footage showing the woman stagger out of the West Covina restaurant after she had been in the toilet for ten minutes.

She is suspected of attempted murder and child abandonment.


Her baby was found when staff heard him crying in the bathroom, partially submerged in the toilet. The placenta had been put in the bin.

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Firefighters remove the baby (Picture: West Covina Police)

Staff alerted poilce who followed a trail of blood out of the store and down the street (Picture: West Covina Police)

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The child had to be rushed to intensive care but is now in a more stable condition.

Police said they had already been looking for Trinidad for alleged drugs offences.