A Florida college student who is on trial for killing her newborn baby girl said in text messages that her “favorite” type of birth control is to “kill [the] kid.”

Brianne Moore was 19 when she gave birth to a baby in her college dorm bathroom in April 2024. Hours later, she disposed of the deceased baby in the trash.

Moore claims she did not know she was pregnant, or was in denial about it, and did not kill the baby, whom she claims died on her own. However, a medical examiner ruled the cause of death as homicide.

In text messages dated seven months before the birth, Moore talked to a male, named Quasim, from her home state of Mississippi. The pair discussed a “plan c” option of birth control as killing the child, which Moore called her “favorite,” according to CourtTV.

Moore: “hey man sometimes you need a plan c”

Quasim: “plan a was condoms
plan b was the pill
plan c was to kill thr [sic] kid”

Moore: “plan c is my favorite”

Jonah Dickstein, Moore’s attorney, claims the texts are taken out of context, and were generally about abortion laws. Dickstein also says the male is not the father of the now-deceased baby girl.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Moore says she woke up on April 27, 2024, when her water broke, but had previously been unaware she was pregnant. Attending the University of Tampa at the time, she went to her dorm room bathroom and secretly gave birth to the baby girl.

Moore claims she laid the baby down and took a shower. She then told police the baby wasn’t moving and she didn’t hear a heartbeat and “got scared.” Moore then allegedly wrapped the baby in a towel, took a nap, and said the baby still wasn’t breathing. About an hour later, she apparently disposed of the baby in a dumpster outside her dorm room at MaKay Hall.

A medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the baby girl said there were small hemorrhages on her lungs, and found the child died from “asphyxia due to compression of the torso with rib fractures.”

Moore is facing 30 years behind bars. She’s been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect, failure to report a death, and unlawful storage, preservation, or transportation of human remains.

Moore’s trial has been postponed until March.