6YO Dies After Mom's Cousin Tried To 'Baptize' Her In Bathtub, Threatened Girl's Sibling With Hell

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A woman was charged with capital murder in connection with the death of her cousin's 6-year-old daughter in Harris County.


Nakia N. Martin, 39, is accused of drowning the child in a bathtub at a home on Courtland Circle in the Klein area. Siblings who survived the incident said Martin was trying to baptize them.

According to court documents, the drowning happened on Sept. 8, 2023. The investigation began the next day.

Martin was babysitting while her cousin was in Indiana, according to court documents.

She told the deputy she was bathing with the girl and two other children. The two children reportedly told investigators that "something happened. The devil" while they were taking a bath. The kids also said Martin put "blessing oil" on their necks, according to court documents.

The girl's mother told investigators that one of her other daughters told her that Martin was trying to baptize them and she saw them all in the bathtub during a FaceTime call on the night of Sept. 8.

When interviewed by investigators, Martin said she "didn't mean to kill this baby" and also said she dressed the girl after removing her from the tub, court documents said.

During an interview with investigators months after the incident, one of the other children told investigators that Martin held the child who died underwater in a bathtub and tried to drown her. She said Martin held her underwater even though the child was struggling to get air. The child also said Martin told her to keep what happened a secret and threatened her with "hell."

Woman charged with capital murder after siblings of 6-year-old girl who drowned say she was baptizing them: Court docs

Nakia Martin is charged with capital murder in the drowning of a 6-year-old. She's accused of killing the child in a bathtub, according to court docs.

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[cubby]

Oh yes she meant to kill her by holding her under the water, did she think that God would save her?

Why don't we tie her up and throw her in the Jordan and see if God will save this sad sack of baby killing shit.

 

[Aedia]

Threatening a child with Hell if they tell what happened definitely seems like something an innocent person would do!
Those siblings will need serious help. The trauma will be horrific. They watched a "trusted" adult drown their sister right next to them and threatened their souls with the worst fate imaginable to the faithful. They're lucky she didn't drown them, too!
However, I wonder why in her crazy mind she chose that specific child. She should be charged with torture as well.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

An Indiana woman babysitting a relative’s children allegedly drowned a 4-year-old girl while trying to “baptize” her in the bathtub.

The alleged incident happened back in September 2023, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in December 2024. Nakia Martin, 39, was arrested in December following an investigation into the death of a child whom she was caring for. According to the affidavit, Martin is cousins with the child’s mother, who was in Indiana at the time Martin was babysitting the children in Spring, Texas. The document stated that Martin called for assistance after finding the child foaming at the mouth and “cold to the touch.”

On the morning of Sept. 9, 2023, Martin saw that the child was not doing well and called a family member before calling authorities. When officers arrived at the home, the child was found in a bedroom and pronounced dead at the scene.

The document stated that puddles surrounded a “large, dirty Jacuzzi tub” in the bathroom that was next to the bedroom where the child’s body lay. Officers said that Martin appeared “distressed,” but spoke to officers, telling them that the night before, she had bathed the child and put lotion on her and one of her siblings. She reportedly admitted to being in the bathtub with all the children, including the alleged victim.

When Martin was asked when she took the bath, she said she didn’t remember. She was also asked if she remembered calling to report a drowning and allegedly answered, “I don’t think so.” Martin also reportedly claimed that she was “just holding” the now-deceased child and “didn’t mean to kill this baby,” later stating, “I killed a kid.”

The officers questioned the two other children, ages 6 and 8 years old, and they had a much more detailed story. Both of the children told one of the officers that “something happened, the Devil,” and that the lotion Martin had put on the deceased child was “blessing oil.”

Police then contacted the girl’s mother, who said that her surviving daughter told her that Martin was “trying to baptize them” on the night her other daughter drowned. The mother had checked in on the children the day before the incident and spoke to Martin, in a FaceTime call, during which she saw her three children in the tub, all of them alive. But she also told police that Martin’s behavior was concerning to her, saying she “had been acting strangely and ranting about God.” According to the document, Martin had told the children “that God would show them something.”

The siblings of the deceased child were interviewed again at a later time. During that interview, the surviving daughter allegedly said that Martin had held her sister under the water and “caused [her] to bleed.” The girl also stated that Martin allegedly attempted to drown her. She stated that Martin told her to “keep the incident a secret and threatened her with Hell.”

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An Indiana woman babysitting a relative's children allegedly drowned a 4-year-old while trying to "baptize" her in the bathtub.

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