A Texas woman has been charged with murder after she admitted to giving birth to a baby and then abandoning and letting the baby die on the same day.

After a worker found a deceased baby in a flowerpot on the grounds of a Dallas cemetery, 19-year-old Jazmin Lopez came forward as the baby's mother. She originally told authorities that her baby, a girl, had been dead upon birth. She later changed her story, admitting that her baby was born alive and died a short while later later after she placed the girl in a backpack and carried her around in it.

Prosecutors initially intended to charge Lopez with capital murder, a charge which upon conviction can result in the death penalty. A grand jury later charged her with the lesser offense of murder, the maximum penalty of which is life in prison.