By rssfeeds-admin But one of the children told police investigators that the babysitter held their sibling underwater until they stopped moving. The babysitter then allegedly laid naked with the still child in the bathtub, not calling 911 until the next morning.
When emergency crews arrived on scene, the 6-year-old was cold to the touch.
“(I) didn’t mean to kill this baby,” Nakia Martin allegedly told police.
Court documents filed in Harris County, Texas, charge Nakia N. Martin, 39, of Muncie with capital murder. In Texas, capital murder carries a possible sentence of life in prison without parole or even a death sentence.
Court documents detail how — on the morning of Sept. 9, 2023 — police were called to a home in the 16000 block of Courtland Circle in northwest Harris County, Texas, on report of a 6-year-old child drowning.
Martin told responding officers that she had bathed the child at roughly 8 p.m. the night before and then found the 6-year-old with foam coming out of the child’s mouth in the morning. Martin claimed she tried to open the child’s mouth but it was completely shut. She then noticed the child was cold to the touch and called a family member before ultimately calling 911.
The child was pronounced dead at 12:48 p.m.
But the story quickly began to unravel. Police were able to contact the children’s mother, who had returned to Indiana and asked Martin to watch her children. The mother said her children told her that Martin had been baptizing the children in the bathtub, holding them underwater until they struggled to breathe.
When police spoke to the children, an 8-year-old and a 6-year-old, they told investigators how Martin put “blessing oils” on their necks and threatened them “with hell” if they spoke about the baptisms in the bathtub.
“Something happened, the devil,” the older child reportedly told police.
The children’s mother told police that Martin had been acting strangely and “ranting about God.” She also mentioned how Martin had told her children that “God would show them something.”
When the mother last spoke to Martin, she had been FaceTiming with the babysitter and saw all three children in the tub. All were alive at that point.
Martin reportedly expressed remorse while police were on scene. She allegedly told officers about how she’d laid naked with the children in the tub after their baths and held the deceased 6-year-old.
She also reportedly put lotion on the deceased child and dressed the child, laying the 6-year-old in the center of the room and not calling 911 until the morning.
“I killed a kid,” she allegedly told investigators.
On Feb. 8, 2024, autopsy results on the deceased child determined the 6-year-old died from drowning. Charges were filed against Martin on Dec. 6, 2024.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Martin is currently being held in jail in Harris County. Her bond was set at $2 million.
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