Houston, TX – Last Saturday, Genny Granados was in labor. She went to the Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital, like you do when you’re about to give birth. But instead of checking herself into the maternity ward, Granados, 29, told ER personnel that she was having stomach pains due to her ulcers. While waiting to be seen, she went into a ladies’ restroom – and then left the hospital.
A few hours later, a custodian responding to reports of blood in the restroom found a newborn baby boy, about six weeks premature, hidden in a trashcan under some paper towels. He wasn’t breathing. Granados had given birth in the restroom, cut the baby’s umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, and thrown him in the trash.
Granados, who also has sons ages 2 and 10, probably knew she was pregnant, since she is not morbidly obese and since she has given birth twice before. Her boyfriend of five years, Alfredo Navarro, says that he did not know she was pregnant and believes he is not the father of the newborn. Navarros says that Genny left with the two older children last week. He complained to police, but he was told there was nothing he could do.
“The police showed up, told me ‘Your girlfriend has all the right to take the children,’ ” Navarro said. Navarro now says that he thinks Granados left the home to “cover it, to cover that she was pregnant.” Granados is a legal resident of the U.S. and has been in the country for several years.
Under Texas’ Baby Moses law, Granados could have handed the baby off to ER personnel or even given birth and left the child without facing charges. There were not signs indicating this in the ER, but the hospital system did have its own signs made and placed in various locations – just not in the particular ER where Granados was. Her attorney says that had Granados known of the law, she would probably not have abandoned her son in the trash. Prosecutors say they think that Granados intentionally covered her pregnancy and had no intention of saving the child. Granados told investigators only that she “already had two children and didn’t want the newborn”, police said.
The baby boy, who was transferred to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, was declared brain-dead on Thursday and will be taken off life support. Granados is in jail on a charge of felony injury to a child. Her bond was raised Thursday from $30,000 to $50,000.
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