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Mother Charged in Newborn's Death

(IMO, women who do stuff like this, especially if they already have a record of some sort of child abuse or neglect, should be ORDERED  to get FIXED!!  And, the law should make sure that it gets done.)

A woman charged with killing her newborn and then hiding the baby's body in a halfway house dryer had a history of abandoning children, according to court records.

 

Alicia Gina Carranza, 23, was arrested Friday and charged with capital murder after residents of Victory Home discovered the baby's body early Friday evening. Her bond has been set at $500,000.

Records show that Carranza was arrested and charged in 2006 with two felony counts of child abandonment. While court records show she was sentenced in that incident this January, they don't indicate what the sentence was.

Police said Carranza secretly gave birth to the baby girl at the halfway house sometime between midnight and 7 p.m. Friday. No one at Victory House -- which prohibits pregnant residents -- knew Carranza was pregnant, police said.

"After giving birth, she admitted to detectives that she actually smothered the child," San Antonio Police Officer Joe Rios told the San Antonio Express-News for its Sunday editions.

Women working in the laundry room found the baby's body after noticing bloody towels sticking out of a dryer that had been used for storage because it was not operating.

Investigators linked Carranza to the baby after noticing that her bedsheets were covered in blood. Residents also reported a large amount of blood in the women's restroom.

Carranza first told investigators that her menstrual cycle had started, but later confessed to giving birth, suffocating the child and placing her in a dryer, police said.

Carranza was taken to a hospital, where she remained Sunday afternoon. It was not immediately clear whether she had an attorney.