Slay-ma ‘raped’

DA: Baby born alive, suffered blunt trauma

AS she entered a hospital, for emergency treatment, Long Island housekeeper Santos Elena Ruiz Solano handed her husband a plastic bag she had brought along with her, officials said.

She asked him to toss the bag, which she said contained trash, and he dutifully-followed her instruction.

But the husband, Selvin Adonis Hernandez, and Solano’s employer soon became suspicious and checked the garbage pail. That’s when they made a horrifying discovery — the bag contained not refuse but a dead newborn girl Ruiz Sol- ano killed after giving birth just hours before, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

The 26-year-old Honduran native pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and is being held without bail.

She never told anyone she was pregnant — including her husband and the family that employed her in their West Islip home. Even at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, she denied to medical workers and police that she had been expecting a baby.

That’s because the pregnancy was the result of a rape that occurred when Solano came to the U.S. six months ago, said her lawyer, Michael Brown. Besides that, he said, the baby was stillborn.

Prosecutors tell it differently.

They say the girl was born alive at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 16 in the bathroom of the employer’s home and lived only long enough to have her mother bash her head so hard that she suffered three skull fractures.

Solano has two other children — ages 5 and 6 — in Honduras. Outside court, Hernandez stood by his wife, calling her “a

good mother.”