Woman to Be Tried for Murder for Allegedly Suffocating Baby and Hiding Him in Desk Drawer at Work 
 
 A Michigan woman who was charged with homicide in April for giving birth to a baby boy in a bathroom stall while at work and then allegedly causing his death by hiding him in a plastic bag in a cubicle drawer has been ordered to stand trial for murder charges, according to reports.The lawyer for Kimberly Pappas, 25, has said his client suffers from "serious mental health issues" and has sought treatment for her, but in July, Pappas was found mentally competent The Redford Township District Judge Karen Khalil called the case "very difficult" on Monday during a preliminary examination, according to the Associated Press Pappas allegedly cut the umbilical cord with cuticle scissors before hiding the baby, a detective told a reporter at the Detroit Free Press Police say the baby was found March 31 after Pappas' co-workers allegedly found blood in the bathroom and called 911. Pappas told officials she had a miscarriage, but an autopsy revealed the baby's death to be a homicide and found that the child lived 20 to 30 minutes before dying of suffocation.Pappas will be arraigned Aug. 31 in Wayne County Circuit Court.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. ||||| Kimberly Pappas enters 17th District Court. (Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer) 
 
 The Downriver woman accused of killing her infant son and stuffing his remains in a bag in Redford will face trial in downtown Detroit. 
 
 Kimberly Pappas, 25, of Wyandotte was bound over on several charges stemming from the incidents that took place March 31 at CEVA Logistics, 24450 Glendale in Redford. She’ll be arraigned in circuit court at 9 a.m. Monday in Detroit’s Frank Murphy Hall of Justice on charges of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder and first-degree child abuse. 
 
 She was charged earlier this spring in the death of her child, which she delivered in the bathroom of the business that morning. The baby was later found in a plastic bag inside another bag at her desk. 
 
 Lt. Frank Arbour of the Redford Township Fire Department said he accompanied other firefighters to the business that day and spoke to Pappas, who was at her desk and told first responders she was feeling ill after her period. Later, she told firefighters she did in fact deliver a child and that it was inside her desk. 
 
 Firefighters returned to her desk in the building, opened a desk drawer and found the tote bag that contained the male baby’s remains, as well as the placenta, in separate plastic bags within the tote. 
 
 “We opened it up and it was a full-term baby,” he said. “It looked like a fresh birth.” 
 
 The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the death was caused by asphyxiation and was a homicide. 
 
 Dr. Chantel Njiwaji of the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office testified to the cause of the baby’s death, which took place in “several minutes” after being successfully born and alive, she said. 
 
 She discovered bruising on the back of the child’s head, as well as facial petechiae on the child’s face, a condition which indicated to Njiwaji that the child could not breath for a certain amount of time. 
 
 “You can find that in asphyxia cases,” she said. “They were ... prominent on the left side of the face.” 
 
 Unknown pregnancy 
 
 Pappas apparently didn’t tell anyone about the pregnancy before the child was delivered. Her sister, Cassie Pappas, said she and other family members inquired about some weight it appeared she gained and asked if she was pregnant at the time, something she denied. Det. Sgt. Kevin Crittenden of the Redford Township Police Department said she told him after the child’s death she had known she was pregnant since Christmas. 
 
 Pappas was earlier referred for a competency and criminal responsibility exam, both of which came back to find her fit to stand trial. 
 
 Her sister worked with her at CEVA Logistics and drove the two of them to work that morning. She said Kimberly Pappas texted her about an hour after getting to work and asked her to bring a change of clothes to the bathroom, where she had been since they arrived that morning. Her sister brought the clothing and asked if she was alright. 
 
 “I just handed it to her underneath the door,” Cassie Pappas said. “She said she was cleaning herself up and she’d be at her desk in a little bit.” 
 
 It wasn’t until she returned to her desk later and began fading in and out that her sister became concerned and called 911. 
 
 Kimberly Pappas’s attorneys argued for dropping the murder charges and moving forward with manslaughter charges, claiming it could not be proven the intent of their client was not to kill the child. 
 
 But 17th District Judge Karen Khalil disagreed and bound her over on the three counts after taking a short recess in her chambers. 
 
 “This is a difficult case,” she said. 
 
 Khalil kept the same bond conditions with the bindover. Kimberly Pappas faces up to life in prison if she is convicted. 
 
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– A woman accused of suffocating her newborn baby in a plastic bag at work is facing charges of child abuse and murder. A judge made the ruling today after hearing testimony in a Detroit suburb, the Detroit News reports. Kimberly Pappas, 26, allegedly gave birth in her office bathroom on March 31, put the baby in one bag, placenta in another, and placed them in her desk. Her sister, Cassandra Pappas—who worked in the same office—says Kimberly texted her asking for a set of fresh clothes and looked really sick. "She said she had an accident," says Cassandra. Kimberly said she "had a heavy period," says a first responder, but she later said she'd miscarried and put the baby in her desk, Hometown Life reports. A medical examiner says the baby lived for several minutes before dying of asphyxiation—but admits CPR efforts may have created a false positive by putting air in the newborn's lungs. Other evidence still indicates homicide, the examiner testified. Kimberly's attorneys argued that she was in shock at the time and may have been confused if the baby was born "flaccid," or not moving. But apparently she'd always denied being pregnant: "She just said she was gaining weight," says Cassandra. Kimberly now faces arraignment on Aug. 31, People reports: "Then we can ... see if there might be some sort of a resolution short of trial," says one of her lawyers. "But I don't know where it's going at this point in time."