Minnesota mom, 20, is accused of drowning her adorable eight-month-old son in a tub because she couldn't enjoy her bath - and then having sex with her boyfriend while the infant lay dead on the hotel bathroom floor

A Minnesota mom has been accused of drowning her adorable eight-month-old son in the tub before having sex with her boyfriend while the infant lay dead nearby. 

Esperanza Rae Harding, 20, has been charged with second degree murder over the February 28 incident after showing up at the hospital on March 1 and claiming the toddler died naturally.

Prosecutors allege that she drowned her baby boy, Mateo, in the tub at a Bloomington hotel on the Minnesota-Minneapolis border because he was ruining her bath by crying. 

Harding's boyfriend Edwin Cosmo Trudeau, 18, has also been charged with aiding an offender for allegedly turning up at the hotel and advising her to put the baby's body in the trash. 

Both Harding and Trudeau also attempted CPR on the child to no avail, and had sex in the bedroom while his dead body lay on the ground in the bathroom, according to the criminal complaint. 

Esperanza Rae Harding, 20, has been charged with second degree murder over the February 28 incident after showing up at the hospital on March 1 and claiming the toddler died naturally

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Prosecutors allege that Harding drowned her baby boy, Mateo, in the tub at a Bloomington hotel on the Minnesota-Minneapolis border because he was ruining her bath by crying

Harding's boyfriend Edwin Cosmo Trudeau, 18, has also been charged with aiding an offender for allegedly turning up at the hotel and advising her to put the baby's body in the trash

The complaint says Minneapolis cops went to the children's hospital on March 6, where Harding claimed her son had died of natural causes on March 1. 

Since the hospital had no record of her son attending, cops interviewed Harding who eventually admitted that the baby died in the Bloomington hotel on February 28.

Harding confessed that she 'wrapped up his body, put it in a backpack, and threw it in a dumpster'. 

She added that Trudeau 'did not like her child and that he wanted her to give him up for adoption' according to the complaint. 

'She stated that Trudeau wanted her to prove that he was her top priority,' the document says. 

During the baby's last moments, Harding said he had been crying non-stop and that 'she could not enjoy her bath' according to the complaint.  

'According to the defendant, she then put Victim in the full bathtub and drowned him,' the documents reads.

'The defendant took a photo of Victim floating face down in the full tub. The photo was recovered from her phone. She said she picked Victim up out of the water after he was 'done moving, done twitching.''

The complaint says Minneapolis cops went to the children's hospital on March 6, where Harding claimed her son had died of natural causes on March 1

Harding is being held on a $1.5 million bond charged with second-degree murder 

During the baby's last moments, Harding said he had been crying non-stop and that 'she could not enjoy her bath' according to the complaint

Both Harding and Trudeau also attempted CPR on the child to no avail, and had sex in the bedroom while his dead body lay on the ground in the bathroom, according to the criminal complaint

The complaint also states that Harding texted Trudeau about the boy's death referring to herself as 'a monster' yet asking him how to get away with it. 

Other messages Harding sent her lover just before she allegedly killed the boy show that she warned him 'Im about to do something bad'.  

'he doing to much rn, I cant fucking sleep, Im trying tho, Im about to do something bad, Please answer me, He going to no be here much longer,' she wrote. 

Trudeau allegedly wrote back 'ok that's ok'.  She later told him Mateo was dead and he came over to the hotel room. 

The couple attempted CPR but when Mateo could not be saved they plotted to dispose of his body in a dumpster in the hotel parking lot. 

They didn't call 911 or seek help for the baby, per court documents. 

According to an affidavit seen by Law & Crime, Trudeau told Harding not to tell authorities about what happened. 

'If you go down, I go down no matter what,' he allegedly said. 'It is always going to be us, Bonnie and Clyde.'

But Trudeau allegedly admitted finding the baby dead in the hotel bathroom and having sex with Harding instead of calling for help.