Prosecutors Thursday dropped murder charges against the Ocean City woman in connection with a stillborn fetus she delivered last week, instead charging her with the homicide of an infant child born to her in 2003.

Christy Freeman, 37, has been held in a Worcester County jail for allegedly causing her 26-baby to be stillborn, then stashing its corpse beneath a bathroom vanity last Thursday, but has notbeen charged in connection with the deaths of three other fetuses found wrapped in plastic in her bedroom and Winnebago until now. Experts had questioned the application of a 2005 state statute that protects “viable” fetuses but contained protections for mothers who harm their own unborn children.