Pregnant mom confesses to killing 2 kids, officers say

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A 20-year-old Brazoria County woman who is expecting her fourth child is in jail on multiple charges in the deaths of two of her sons when they were infants, police said.

Kristi-An Walker of Angleton is charged with injury to a child and murder in the June 21 death of her 6-month-old son, said Sgt. Kirk Coleman of the Angleton Police Department.

The murder charge is in connection with the death of the 6-month-old, and the charges of injury to a child are for both deaths.

Investigators said she told them she became frustrated with the children when they wouldn't stop crying.

"She said she did it on both occasions because she was frustrated with the kids crying and she couldn't deal with the constant crying," Coleman said.

Walker has been in the Brazoria County Jail since July 26, according to law enforcement records.

Angleton officers looking into the June death learned details about how another one of her sons, a 4-month-old, had died in April 2011 in nearby Freeport.

Whether a criminal investigation was done in that child's death is unclear.

Officers went to her residence in the 600 block of West Live Oak about 3 a.m. June 21, responding to a call about an unresponsive infant, Coleman said.

"When they got there, the mother was performing CPR, according to the officer," he said.

"Later on we discovered she was only pretending. She knew the baby was dead."

The baby was pronounced dead later that day at Angleton Danbury Medical Center in Angleton, the sergeant said.

The June charge of injury to a child stemmed from allegations of earlier abuse to the same child, Coleman said.

She banged the child's head against a doorjamb, he said.

"She admitted physically abusing the 6-month-old when he was 4 months old, by throwing him up against the wall and furniture," Coleman said.

Walker's 3-year-old son was taken into Child Protective Service custody June 21 and remained Tuesday in a foster home, said CPS spokeswoman Gwen Carter.

The agency was compiling information on the deaths of Walker's two sons and the family's prior history with CPS, Carter said.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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