Overview

• A maintenance worker found the newborn in a trash bag inside a Kingsville Walmart restroom on July 14 and employees performed CPR until paramedics arrived
• Surveillance footage showed the 17-year-old spent about 40 minutes in the bathroom before exiting and the infant was discovered roughly 30 minutes later
• Deputies located the teenager’s vehicle, took her to a hospital for treatment and will question her once she receives medical clearance
• Jerry Lee Martinez, 45, was booked July 15 on charges of abandoning or endangering a child, tampering with evidence and tampering with a witness
• Authorities have reminded parents of Texas Safe Haven laws that allow them to surrender newborns at designated sites without facing prosecution