Inset: Karla Ibarra (Bexar County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The San Antonio bus stop where Karla Ibarra allegedly gave her infant to a woman (KSAT/YouTube).
An 18-year-old Texas mother allegedly handed her 1-month-old son to a stranger at a downtown San Antonio bus stop, asking, “Well, do you want him?” She then reportedly provided the woman with the baby’s birth certificate and Social Security card.
Karla Ibarra was waiting to board a bus when she allegedly approached another woman and asked to borrow her phone, police said. Jennafire Benavides, the woman who encountered Ibarra, told local ABC affiliate KSAT that Ibarra soon placed her 1-month-old son in her arms.
“Very beautiful baby,” Benavides recalled. Ibarra allegedly told her, “Well, do you want him? I’m going to give him away. I’m going to give him to somebody.”
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Online court records show that Ibarra faces a charge of abandoning and endangering a child with intent to return. Her bail was set at $7,000.
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