A 24-year-old prison guard is in the Falls County Jail on abuse of a corpse charges after Marlin police say she gave birth in the bathtub of a motel and dumped the full-term baby in the back tank of the toilet.
Marlin police detective Sgt. Michael Baker said he is hoping to increase the charges against Khaliliha Baucom to capital murder for the April incident.
Baker said Baucom, of Lott, gave birth to the child by herself in the bathtub of the Relax Inn in Marlin. Baker said, “she had ran her boyfriend off,” that night. He has fathered some of her other children, he said.
Baucom, he said, was taken by ambulance that night from the motel to Falls County Community Hospital after she was complaining of bleeding and stomach pain.
She was airlifted to a Waco hospital for an emergency C-section, but no baby was found, he said.
Doctors there discovered she had already given birth, and called the police.
Marlin officers found the baby in the toilet rack, he said. The placenta and bloody towels that they say Baucom used to clean up the bathtub was stuffed on top of the baby.
