Bail posted for mother charged with murder

ATLANTA - Nakia Burgess, the mother accused of murdering her child after she left her 3-year-old strapped in a sweltering car, was released from jail Friday on a $40,000 bond. <br> <br> Burgess&#39; attorney, Phinia Aten, said an outpouring of donations from sympathizers helped her client post bail. Burgess had been on suicide watch at the Fulton County Jail. <br> <br> Asan&#39;te died Oct. 2 after Burgess left the child, who had Down syndrome, in a car for several hours while working at a temporary job as a transcriptionist. <br> <br> Hospital officials said the child&#39;s body temperature reached 108 degrees. <br> <br> Burgess&#39; release did not come in time to attend her daughter&#39;s funeral Thursday in Trenton, N.J. But Burgess was allowed to visit the Decatur funeral home where her daughter&#39;s body was being kept before the funeral. <br> <br> A memorial services was held Saturday morning at St. Paul AME Church in Atlanta. <br> <br> Aten said Burgess left her child in the car because she had nowhere else to leave her after day care arrangements fell through.

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