Tiffany Taylor, who is charged with murdering her mother, gave birth to a baby girl last week, officials say.
Ms. Taylor, 16, who has been held in the Putnam Juvenile Detention Center since November of 1996 for allegedly stabbing her mother to death, was taken to Cookeville Regional Medical Center on Friday, August 8, for the birth of her baby, according to Putnam Juvenile Detention Center director Lt. Danny Holmes.
The baby was born the same day, and Ms. Taylor was returned to the Detention Center on Monday, Aug. 11, he said.
Reportedly, Ms. Taylor's father and his family took custody of the baby.
Meanwhile, a court date for Tiffany Taylor's formal arraignment in adult court has been set.
On September 15, she will be arraigned in Criminal Court before Judge Leon Burns, according to officials in the District Attorney's office.
She is charged with first degree murder, and the case was moved from Putnam Juvenile Court to Criminal Court after state prosecutors appeared before Judge John Hudson recently and argued that the girl should be tried as an adult.
The murder of Theresa Parramoure was discovered on Nov. 27, 1996, when Tiffany Taylor and her father, Ronnie Taylor, who is the ex-husband of Theresa Parramoure, went to the Parramoure home on Fisk Road.
Parramoure, a hairdresser, had been stabbed to death in her bed the day before.
Investigators later said that Tiffany Taylor stabbed her mother to death, then turned up at the hospital emergency room seeking treatment for a knife wound to her own leg. She gave various false accounts of how she received the wound, prosecutors allege.
When doctors and detectives could not reach her mother by telephone, they called her father, who came to the hospital and took Ms. Taylor home with him for the night. The next day, they went to the trailer to get clothing for the girl and Ronnie Taylor discovered the body.
Allegedly, Tiffany Taylor confessed to detectives that she had stabbed her mother after arguing with her over boys the girl had been seeing.
After her arrest, she was sent to a medical facility elsewhere for a mental evaluation, and it was there that doctors discovered that Ms. Taylor was pregnant.
After that, prenatal care and special care with diet and exercise were provided to Ms. Taylor at the Putnam Juvenile Detention Center.
Sheriff Jerry Abston said guards were posted at the hospital while Ms. Taylor was a patient there.