By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:16 BST, 17 April 2019 | Updated: 23:25 BST, 17 April 2019
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Jazmin Lopez, 18, has been charged with capital murder for the death of her newborn baby
An 18-year-old Texas woman has been arrested on a capital murder charge in the death of her newborn daughter whose body was found inside a flower pot at a cemetery last month.
Jazmin Lopez, of Dallas, came forward to police in late March identifying herself as the deceased baby’s mother, and on Tuesday she was booked into the Denton County Jail on a count of capital murder of a person under ten years old.
She remained behind bars on Wednesday, with her bond set at $500,000.
The case began unfolding on March 11, when a caretaker at Perry Cemetery in Carrollton discovered a flower pot between two headstones that looked out of place, according to an arrest affidavit cited by Dallas News.
The graveyard staffer emptied the pot and found the body of a newborn baby girl, with her umbilical cord still attached.
Police notified the public of the grim find more than two weeks later in
