Student’s horrifying ‘plan c’ text revealed after she gave birth to secret baby that died in her dorm

A Florida college student accused of fatally suffocating her newborn in her dorm bathroom texted a man eight months before about her sickening preference for ‘killing the baby’, prosecutors say. 

Brianna Moore, 19, who stands accused of aggravated manslaughter over the April 2024 death of her newborn daughter, texted an unnamed man in September 2023 about her chilling plans if she got pregnant. 

‘Hey man, sometimes you need a plan C,’ Moore texted the unidentified man, per the Tampa Bay Times. 

He responded: ‘Plan A was condoms. Plan B was the pill. Plan C was to kill (the) kid.’ 

‘Plan C is my favorite,’ Moore said back, according to texts in her phone found by investigators after her child was found dead. 

The texts are set to become central to prosecutors’ arguments when she stands trial over the manslaughter of her infant on July 22. 

When she gave birth last spring, Moore claims that she had no idea she was pregnant before she suddenly fell ill in her dorm, throwing up and laying on the floor in pain before her screaming bay fell down next to her. 

‘It wasn’t moving, so I felt for a heartbeat, and I didn’t feel one,’ she told investigators. ‘It wasn’t moving, and I got scared.’ 

Moore stunned the University of Tampa campus when her newborn child was found in her bathroom trash can, with newly revealed documents from her upcoming trial shedding light on the moment the child was discovered. 

When she was brought in for questioning to a campus security office, Moore said she was stunned when she gave birth, and told investigators: ‘I just woke up not feeling good yesterday morning. So I went to the bathroom… After a few seconds, it was dead.’ 

She was attending the university on a $30,000 scholarship and had previously achieved high grades at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, a high school for gifted students. 

But police said that they came to believe she was naïve about much of the world and struggled to make friends at college, barely talking to her three roommates who she shared a bathroom with. 

She told investigators that on the morning of April 27, 2024, she woke up in pain and noticed that her pants were wet. 

Moore raced to the bathroom and remained in there for over 90 minutes, with her roommates later saying they mistook the newborn baby’s cries for a video playing on a phone. 

The roommates didn’t check on her, and Moore said her infant cried for ‘like five seconds’ before it became unresponsive. 

According to the Tampa Bay Times, she said she then laid the baby on a towel and took a shower, and when she came out she feared it was dead. 

‘It wasn’t moving, so I felt for a heartbeat, and I didn’t feel one,’ she reportedly told police. ‘It wasn’t moving, and I got scared.’ 

Moore said she then wrapped the baby in a towel and took a nap at around 9.45am, waking up at 11am and finding the baby was still not breathing. 

Late that afternoon, her roommates called campus security after seeing blood on the bathroom floor. Moore initially claimed she had merely had her period, and security left. 

Tragically, the newborn was not discovered until the next evening, when one of her roommates found the baby wrapped in a bloodied towel in the trash bag. 

The haunting discovery led police to race to the campus, and a medical examiner found that the newborn suffered several broken ribs along her spine and small hemorrhages in her lungs. 

The death was ruled a homicide, caused by ‘asphyxia due to compression of the torso with rib fractures’. 

Once she was interrogated, Moore admitted that she was ‘probably in denial’ about being pregnant, and told police: ‘I just kind of put it out of my head because I hadn’t had my period since last March.’ 

In an examination by forensic neuropsychologist Nicole Graham for Moore’s impending trial, she wrote that Moore likely had a ‘cryptic pregnancy’, where women either do not know or are in denial that they are heavily pregnant. 

She told Graham that she held the baby girl to her chest to ‘soothe’ her, and denied smothering her by holding her too tightly. 

The reports are set to become central to Moore’s trial later this month, with prosecutors attempting to block her from testifying in her own defense, saying it would only ‘garner sympathy from the jury’. 

Moore’s text messages about ‘killing the kid’, written eight months before the birth to a man who was not the father, are also set to be brought up by prosecutors. 

Her attorney Jonah Dickstein told the Tampa Bay Times that the texts are out of context, and said that ‘in those text messages with her friend from eight months earlier, she was just discussing the general legal status of birth control and abortion in Florida and other states’.  

If Moore is found guilty of manslaughter, she faces up to 30 years in prison.