Woman Stuffs Baby in Toilet Tank

(Marlin, Texas) A 24-year-old guard at the Falls County Jail, Khaliliha Baucom, was arrested for abuse of a corpse after police learned that she had given birth in a motel and stuffed the baby's body in the tank of a toilet.

Marlin police Detective Sgt. Michael Baker said he hopes 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 run 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.

Baucom was booked into custody at the Falls County Jail and released on $2,500 bond.