PANOLA COUNTY, MS – Authorities say a 16-year-old girl stabbed her newborn baby to death.

According to police, 16-year-old Linda Nash was arrested over the weekend after she was accused of killing the baby shortly after giving birth at a Pope, Mississippi home Saturday night.

The baby was taken to the hospital with a stab wound to the abdomen and pronounced dead.

Nash has been charged as an adult and is being held at the Panola County jail on a $100,000 bond.