Police: Was baby found in freezer stillborn or murdered?

BAINBRIDGE - Authorities in south Georgia were trying to figure out Saturday if a baby found wrapped in plastic in a household freezer was born alive and whether the woman charged with abandoning the body was the child&#39;s mother. <br> <br> The full-term newborn girl was found Thursday and Melissa Ferguson, 41, was jailed until posting a $5,000 bond Saturday, said Decatur County Sheriff Wiley Griffin. She&#39;s accused of putting the child into the chest freezer at her home in Fowltown about 18 months ago. <br> <br> She&#39;s charged with concealing a death and abandoning a body, both felonies. Homicide charges may be filed Monday, Griffin said. <br> <br> ``Was that baby alive? That&#39;s the big question. Is it a person or is it not a person? That&#39;s what&#39;s being determined,&#39;&#39; he said. <br> <br> Even if the baby was stillborn, Ferguson would still face the other charges. <br> <br> Pending test results including blood work that will indicate whether Ferguson is the mother from the state crime lab in Atlanta will help authorities decide what additional charges to bring, Griffin said. An autopsy done Saturday didn&#39;t immediately show how the baby died. <br> <br> ``Some of the tests they&#39;re waiting on are going to take a couple of days,&#39;&#39; he said. ``If I don&#39;t get some satisfaction, we&#39;re going to Atlanta. We need to make a determination about whether to upgrade the charges.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Ferguson&#39;s children, 20-year-old Jaban Taylor 18-year-old Tashiba Hamilton, found the baby while they were looking in the freezer for something for lunch. <br> <br> They called their mother at her job at Goodwill in Bainbridge, in far southwest Georgia. She came home and told them ``some other person had put it in the freezer,&#39;&#39; Griffin said. <br> <br> After investigators arrived, she acknowledged that she put the baby in the in freezer herself, the sheriff said. <br> <br> Ferguson did not say who the mother of the child was, but Griffin said he was ``99 percent sure&#39;&#39; she was. <br> <br> Concealing a death is punishable by one to 10 years in prison and abandoning a corpse can result in a prison sentence of one to three years.