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A 14-year-old girl gave birth to a full-term baby in a school bathroom and then tried to flush it down the toilet, killing the infant, police in Texas said.
The incident at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, Texas came just three days after another 14-year-old girl delivered a stillborn foetus in the toilet of an aeroplane on her way back to Houston from a school field trip.
The Harris County District Attorney's office decided not to pursue charges against the girl on the plane, who disposed of the foetus in a rubbish bin.
The students and their chaperones were returning from New York aboard a March 30 Continental Airlines flight.
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Houston homicide investigators interviewed both the girl and a 14-year-old boy believed to be the father.
The girl, who authorities have not identified, told police she did not know she was pregnant.
Preliminary autopsy results indicated the foetus was stillborn and not viable, police said.
The Boeing 737 plane landed at Bush Intercontinental Airport on a non-stop flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport.
A cleaning crew found the foetus inside a wastebasket in the toilet of the Continental Airlines plane about 15 minutes after the plane landed.
