GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A Florida judge rescheduled a hearing this week to consider whether to keep in jail indefinitely a mother who told police she deliberately drowned her 7-month-old infant in a bath tub, after her public defender said the woman was dealing with a continuing crisis.
Tierra Anne Scott-Franklin, 23, of Gainesville did not appear in court as expected Tuesday afternoon. Circuit Judge Robert K. Groeb rescheduled the detention hearing to Feb. 2 to consider the request from the State Attorney’s Office to keep her in jail until her criminal case concludes.
Scott-Franklin, who was also identified in unrelated court records as Tierra Anne Franklin-Scott, is facing a first-degree murder charge, one of the most serious offenses under Florida law. If convicted, she faces up to life in prison or execution. The case was an extremely rare incident of infanticide…