A Safe Baby Site sign in front of a North Texas fire station.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old Fort Worth woman faces a capital murder charge after police say she drowned her newborn daughter in a motel bathtub, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. In the wake of the case, Fort Worth police are reminding residents about the Texas Safe Haven Law, which allows parents to anonymously surrender unharmed infants.<\/p>\n
FULL STORY: Mom accused of drowning newborn girl in bathtub at Fort Worth motel: affidavit<\/a><\/p>\n Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n Click to resize<\/p>\n Avia Cantrell, 23, was arrested on suspicion of capital murder after police say she gave birth in a bathtub at Drummers Inn on Oct. 14 and left the infant face down in the water for about 30 minutes. Her boyfriend, Camron Baker, 26, faces an abuse of corpse charge.Texas\u2019 Safe Haven Law, also known as the Baby Moses Law, allows parents to anonymously surrender an unharmed infant 60 days old or younger without legal repercussions.Designated Emergency Infant Care locations include fire stations, EMS stations and hospitals. Parents must physically hand the baby to an employee unless the location has a Safe Baby box.Residents can call or text the state\u2019s Baby Moses Hotline<\/a> at 800-392-3352 for more information about surrendering a newborn.After a surrender, the infant is taken to a hospital for a medical exam. The hospital notifies CPS, which takes custody and begins the placement or foster care process.<\/p>\n The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n This story was originally published October 21, 2026 3:21 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Safe Baby Site sign in front of a North Texas fire station. Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-472982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}