Missouri mom accused of baking her newborn baby to death in oven could be FREED after judge halves her bail to $100,000 and says she only needs to post 10% to exit jail

• Mariah Thomas, 26, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after one-month-old Za’Riah Mae was found dead 
• At a hearing on Tuesday, Thomas had her bail reduced from $200,000 to $100,000 by Jackson County Judge Travis Willingham 
• That means that Thomas could potentially be out of jail for just $10,000, as conditions of the bond require her to come up with just 10 per cent 

The Missouri mother accused of baking her newborn daughter to death in an oven after allegedly mistaking it for a crib could be freed for just $10,000 after a judge cut her bail in half.

Mariah Thomas, 26, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after one-month-old Za’Riah Mae was found dead with ‘burn wounds’, according to an arrest warrant.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Thomas had her bail reduced from $200,000 to $100,000 by Jackson County Judge Travis Willingham.

That means that Thomas could potentially be out of jail for just $10,000, as conditions of the bond require her to come up with just 10 per cent of that.

Judge Willingham apparently agreed with Thomas’ attorney, who argued her client’s bond should be reduced because she has no criminal history.

Mariah Thomas, 26, the Missouri mother accused of baking her newborn daughter to death in an oven after allegedly mistaking it for a crib could be freed for just $10,000 after a judge cut her bail in half

Prosecutors, on the other hand, believe Thomas is a flight risk and a danger to the community, according to the Kansas City Star.

Cops were called to the mom’s Kansas City home to reports of a child not breathing on February 9 –  the day after Thomas’ birthday.

When they arrived, they found the infant covered in burns, with her ‘blackened’ clothing melted onto her diaper.

A devastated friend of Thomas’ told DailyMail.com that Za’Riah was a ‘very bubbly’ baby, who was ‘smiling all the time’.

She also suggested Thomas’ mental health may have played a role in the tragedy.

‘Mariah had mental issues from what I know and didn’t have the mindset of a adult, she thought like a child,’ the friend said, adding she last talked to the mom on Monday.

Za’Riah’s grandfather told police he received a call from her mom at around 1pm on Friday in which she told him ‘something was wrong with the baby and he needed to return home immediately’.

On returning home immediately began to smell smoke and found Za’Riah dead in her crib.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Thomas had her bail reduced from $200,000 to $100,000 by Jackson County Judge Travis Willingham. That means that Thomas could potentially be out of jail for just $10,000, as conditions of the bond require her to come up with just 10 per cent of that

Mariah Thomas, 26, has been accused of killing her baby Za’Riah Mae by putting her in an oven

The one-month-old baby was found at her Kansas City home with burn marks across her body, according to Thomas’ arrest warrant

Thomas told police she had ‘accidentally placed her in the oven instead of the crib’, the charging document states

Thomas told him she had ‘accidentally’ put her in the oven, according to court filings.

Za’Riah was discovered by police in a car seat inside her home with ‘apparent thermal injuries on various parts of a her body’.

She was wearing a bodysuit over a diaper which appeared to have melted onto it which was ‘very dirty, possibly burned’.

A charred baby blanket was also discovered and taken as evidence.

Thomas was transported to police headquarters for an interview where she invoked her fifth amendment right to remain silent.

But she consented to detectives obtaining a blood draw and accessing her phone data.

Thomas’ social media presents her as a doting mom, who referred to her daughter as her ‘princess’.

In one Facebook post she states her desire to be, ‘the best mother I can be to my beautiful daughter.’

Police responded to reports of a child not breathing and found the infant dead in her car seat

Thomas social media posts portray her as a loving mother but also suggested she was feeling isolated

But in one haunting post made just weeks before the tragedy Thomas complained that nobody was looking out for her.

‘Mfs claim they my friend by don’t never check up on me or Za’Riah,’ she wrote on January 20.

Thomas is still currently being held at the Jackson County Detention Center.

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