SAN ANTONIO -- A woman now accused of smothering her newborn daughter and stuffing her into a clothes dryer was convicted in 2005 of abandoning another child in January 2005.

Alicia Gina Carranza, 23, was convicted after she arrived home to find her child standing near the edge of a driveway while wearing a dirty diaper, court records show.

Friday evening, police responded to the Victory Home rehabilitation center on the 100 block of SW 38th Street after residents of the facility found the body of a newborn girl wrapped in bloody towels inside a clothes dryer, police said.

During their investigation, Carranza admitted to police she gave birth to the child in the facility's bathroom, smothered her and placed her in the dryer, investigators said. She was subsequently arrested and charged with capital murder.

In 2007, Carranza was a resident at the SAMM Shelter for the Homeless, but failed to complete its transitional program, SAMM president Navarra Williams said.

"There's a myriad of circumstances why people cannot complete that program, but by and large, it's extremely successful," he said. "About 80 percent of the people... make it back to self-sufficiency."

Citing privacy reasons, Navarra refused to explain why Carranza failed the program.

After failing to meet the conditions of her two-year probation in the child abandonment conviction, Carranza was sentenced to six months in jail, but was released early because of time served, court records show.

She is currently being held in the Bexar County Jail on a $500,000 bond.