A West Country teenager who killed her newborn baby boy when she was aged just 15 has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Paris Mayo, who is now 19, gave birth to Stanley unaided in a living room at her parents’ home in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on March 23, 2019, stifling any cries of pain so her parents would not find out she was in labour
She assaulted Stanley, leaving him with a fractured skull, stuffed five cotton wool balls into his mouth and pinched his nose before putting his body in a bin bag, leaving it on the front doorstep and going to bed.
She was found guilty of murdering Stanley Mayo, who was just a couple of hours old, at Worcester Crown Court on Friday (June 23) and was jailed at the same court on Monday (June 26). The teenager had denied knowing she was pregnant and killing her son, saying he was already dead when she gave birth to him. The baby was conceived when she was just 14 years old.
