Georgia Teen Charged with Newborn's Death After She's Seen Digging a Hole in Her Backyard Hours After Giving Birth.

Police in Marietta, Georgia have arrested a 17-year-old girls after they say she reportedly tried to bury a dead newborn in her backyard.

Police arrived at a home, on Grambling Street, around 3pm this past Sunday after a man said his niece was digging a hole in their backyard and he knew something was wrong. Authorities say that the girl, identified as Leticia A. Rodriguez, was actively digging the hole and there was also a deceased baby. The condition of the baby seemed to be abnormal and it appears Rodriguez was attempting to conceal the baby's death but had not completed the burial.

Rodriguez was said to have delivered the baby, at her residence, just six hours before she attempted to bury the child. She was transported to an area hospital for treatment and observation. Investigators say once Rodriguez is discharged from the hospital, she will be booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, where she will be held without bond on felony charges of concealing a death, abuse of a dead body and abandonment of a dead body.

Officials say additional charges are possible once the medical examiner determines the infant’s exact cause of death. “The medical examiner has the deceased infant, and it will be up to them to determine was this infant born alive or not, was the infant viable or not, what is the exact age and what is the cause of death,” Marietta Police Public Information Officer Chuck McPhilamy said.

Neighbors in the area are shocked to learn what has happened in their quiet, family, neighborhood. One went on record as saying "There are a lot of children that play in the neighborhood, and it just really pains me to think something like that happened.”

The investigation into this death, and the circumstances surrounding it, is still ongoing.