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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/5/1590164331769.png" alt="Maria Paiz-Perez" />
 <figcaption>Maria Paiz-Perez</figcaption>
 </figure>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A woman who left her newborn baby boy wrapped in a sweater and a plastic bag on an Omaha doorstep last month has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of abandonment.Maria Paiz-Perez, 28, left the 7-pound baby boy - with the umbilical cord still attached - on a south Omaha front porch on April 6, shortly after she had given birth to him at her home, police said. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor count of negligent child abuse against Paiz-Perez.Joseph Cervantes, an attorney for Paiz-Perez,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.omaha.com/news/crime/woman-who-left-newborn-son-on-porch-in-south-omaha-pleads-no-contest-to-abandonment/article_5def9bb9-21d7-5084-b7ea-23b57ef57bd0.html" target="_blank">told&nbsp;</a>the Omaha World-Herald on Thursday that his client is from Guatemala, had little education and had become pregnant as a result of a sexual assault. Cervantes said she was scared and unsure of how to take care of the child.Cervantes said Paiz-Perez did not know about Nebraska's safe haven law, which allows people to leave babies at a fire station or hospital.The baby has been placed in foster care.

Woman who abandoned baby at Omaha home sentenced to jail