A 2007 Solon High School graduate is in jail in Broward County, Florida, facing a murder charge after police said she threw her newborn baby girl down a trash chute early Saturday morning.

Ashley Truitt, who turned 18 on May 15, was on vacation with her family when she threw the child down the chute at a Pompano Beach hotel, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a press release.

Truitt told sheriff's detectives she gave birth at 4:30 a.m. in a bathroom at the hotel after keeping her pregnancy hidden from her family and boyfriend, sheriff's officials in Florida said.

"It is innocence in its purest form, snuffed out,'' Hugh Graf, spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff's Office, told The Gazette. "Any reasonable person reading this story would be horrified by this. It's a very heinous, disturbing crime.''

Deputies said they found the baby Saturday morning in a Dumpster at the ground level of Wyndham Resort in Pompano Beach, at the ground level the trash chute's base. They charged Truitt with an open charge of murder. She was in jail without bail.

Deputies said they learned about the death after responding to reports of large amounts of blood and a paring knife on the seventh floor of the resort's Sable Palm Building at 9:33 a.m., an affidavit deputies filed in court shows. They followed a blood trail down a hallway from a room her parents were registered to a trash chute room at the east end of the building, the affidavit said.

The news shocked Solon High School principal Bob Lesan.

"Not only did she hide it from her parents but she hid it from us, too,'' Lesan said about Truitt's pregnancy.

"She was pretty reserved. She was quiet, she did her work,'' he said.

Truitt earned enough high school credits to finish school Jan. 11, Lesan said. "She worked hard so she could leave at semester,'' he said.

In Broward County, Graf said Truitt's family -- her parents, Raymond and Patricia Truitt; her brother, Justin Truitt; and boyfriend, Jason Black -- arrived in Florida on Friday and planned to leave this coming Friday, June 8.

Ashley Truitt told investigators she did not believe Black was the girl's father, Graf said.

In a press release, deputies said Black told detectives he was awakened at about 4 a.m. by the sound of water running in the bathroom. He saw Ashley Truitt walk out of the unit and a blood trail in the hallway.

When he confronted her about the blood trail, she told him she was having her period, the sheriff's press release states.

Detectives interviewed Ashley Truitt who told them that she hid her pregnancy from her parents and her boyfriend. Truitt told detectives the baby was born alive and that she used a kitchen knife to cut the umbilical cord. She put the baby in a plastic bag along with some bath towels, investigators said.

An autopsy Sunday confirmed that the baby was born alive and died from blunt trauma to the head. The fatal blow likely came from being dropped seven stories to the Dumpster below, investigators said.