An Arkansas woman who took in someone else's children was charged with murder after the baby in her care died following a brain bleed.

Tessa Jonell Thompson, 29, was charged with second-degree murder on Thursday after she was arrested last month in connection with the death of a baby boy she had taken into her home. According to a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, the baby was transported to Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, a city around 150 miles north of Little Rock, from Thompson's home in nearby Midway on the afternoon of Aug. 29 after a call to dispatchers about a baby "barely breathing."

An investigator from the Baxter County Sheriff's Office arrived at the hospital to find the baby intubated with "obvious bruising on the right side of his face." Hospi

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