Illegal alien deported in 2006, comes back to US, has 2 children here, kills 3rd

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SAN ANTONIO -- Before and after Nidia Yolibeth Alvarado gave birth at University Hospital on Dec. 20, she displayed many of the warning signs of a mother who might commit infanticide.
Some of the red flags about Alvarado — hiding the pregnancy from relatives, for example — weren't relayed to the hospital, which has policies aimed at identifying and helping moms at risk of hurting their babies or themselves.
Police say Alvarado told them that a day after she was discharged, she strangled her son, known as "Baby Boy Mendoza."

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Alvarado, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras who was deported once in 2006, checked in at the hospital using what turned out to be a false name, Karen Mendoza, and birthday. There was no record of prior contact with a woman by that name, Kirkman said.
UHS asks patients for identification, but "when they come to the hospital without any ... we are required by law to provide emergency medical care," adding that she couldn't disclose whether Alvarado had furnished any type of ID.
Though visitors to the hospital are not monitored, Kirkman said, the staff noted that no one visited Alvarado during her two-day stay and told police that after the baby's body was discovered, an arrest warrant affidavit states.
The prevalence of neonaticide — the killing of a baby in its first few hours or days of life — is unknown, but one study suggests it could be as high as 2.1 births per 100,000.

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