SHAWANO – A woman who claims her 2-month-old baby suffocated by pulling a blanket over his own head gave him roughly 50 minutes of CPR before giving up and leaving him to make some macaroni and cheese for herself and another child she was baby-sitting, according to her statement to police.

Catherine R. Barker, 22, is not facing homicide charges, but was charged late last week with three other felonies: failure to report the death of a child, attempt to bury the corpse of a child and child neglect leading to death.

She faces roughly 37 years in prison if convicted of all three counts. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, and she remains in the Shawano County Jail on a bond of $100,000.

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Barker texted a friend that her baby was dead and that she intended to bury him somewhere out in the country because she had numerous warrants against her and was afraid that telling the police would result in her going to prison, according to her criminal complaint. The friend notified police.

The charges stem from a Sept. 28 incident at her grandfather’s home, where she was staying with the baby and earning money by baby-sitting her two sisters’ children.

Police only have her say-so on when the baby might have died — presumably between 4 a.m. on that Friday, when she fed him, and about 10:30 a.m. that morning, when she discovered he was not breathing and was “a little bit cold,” according to the complaint.

Certified two years ago in CPR, she told police she attempted CPR for about 30 minutes nonstop. She told them the baby revived, and she tended to the other child, only to return and find him not breathing again, the complaint says. Later she told police he might not really have revived, that it might have just been wishful thinking on her part.

She applied another 20 minutes of CPR before giving up, she told police.

She told officers she didn’t call for help from her father, who was in the house at the time, and she didn’t call 911 on either of the two cell phones she had because her sister's boy, whom she was babysitting, had thrown one against a wall where she couldn’t find it and wouldn’t let go of the other one, the complaint says.

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She said she also didn’t bother to tell her other sister, who arrived at the home to drop off another child for her to watch, because she didn’t want to make her sister late for work.

Instead, she put one of the boys to bed for a nap and made macaroni and cheese for the other child and herself, the complaint says.

During the course of several interviews with police, Barker suggested her boy could have pulled his own blanket over his face, but she also said he could have been suffocated by her sister’s boy or “I possibly could have covered his face by accident,” the complaint says.

Police are still trying to figure out the source of discoloration on the baby’s belly and “lividity,” discoloration from the pooling of blood after death, on his back and the bottom of his head.

They are also investigating why Barker may have texted a friend nearly a week earlier to report her boy had stopped breathing temporarily then, too. Barker claims her Facebook messaging account had been hacked and that she had sent no such message.

She also could not explain why one of her cell phones showed internet searches on “how to revive a dead infant.” Barker claimed she never used her phone to go on the internet.