(January 22, 2008)--A former prison guard accused of giving birth in a motel bathtub and stuffing the full-term baby in the back tank of the toilet was in the Falls County Jail Tuesday, charged with capital murder.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Khaliliha Baucom of Lott earlier Tuesday.
Bond was set at $200,000.
She was named in a sealed indictment returned in December by the Falls County Grand Jury.
Baucom was arrested in November on a warrant charging abuse of a corpse, which is a misdemeanor, but authorities said then a capital murder charge could still be filed.
She was free on $2,500 bond on the earlier charge when she was arrested Tuesday.
Police in Marlin say Baucom gave birth by herself in a Marlin motel bathtub in April.
Then she was taken by ambulance to a hospital after she complained of bleeding and stomach pain.
She was airlifted to a Waco hospital for an emergency C-section.
When doctors discovered she had already given birth, they called the police.
Marlin officers found the baby's body in the toilet tank along with the placenta and bloody towels used to clean up the bathtub.
Child Protective Services initially took custody of her three children, but they have since been living with their fathers.
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