A Polk County mother accused of killing her 1-year-old son will face a judge Sunday after being charged with first-degree murder.

Neha Patel, 32, was transported from Hillsborough County to Polk County on Saturday after she was found sitting in her minivan in a Tampa International Airport parking lot pondering suicide, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Patel fled her home Friday after she put her son Ishan's "cold and blue" body in his crib and confessed to her husband that she had killed him.

During a news conference Friday, Sheriff Grady Juddreleased details from Patel's "candid" confession in which she described how she hated her child and left him inside a tub filled with water for 10 minutes.

A mother who says she hated her baby son from the day he was born left him to drown in the bath, investigators say.

Neha Patel of Lakeland, Florida, allegedly slapped one-year-old Ishan, then purposefully left him alone in a hall-full bathtub. Patel told investigators she was home alone with her son on Thursday. The baby began to crawl toward her in the living room; she slapped him because she hated the child and wanted to discourage him from coming close to her, the sheriff's office said.

She put her son down for a nap. When he woke up, she put him in the bathtub, which was half full of water, and left him alone, the sheriff's office said.

Returning 10 minutes later to find the infant unconscious, she refused to do CPR even though she knew what to do, the sheriffs office said.

Patel, 32, was arrested yesterday at the parking lot at Tampa International Airport. She said she  intended to kill herself by jumping off the garage roof, but stopped during two approaches as there were too many people were around.  The young mother has now been charged with first-degree murder.

She told deputies she 'hated' her son since the day he was born and felt he was responsible for her 'state of mind.'

Post-natal depression, caused by a chemical, hormonal imbalance,  affects 10 to 15 percent of women.

The pharmacist was home alone with her son on Thursday when the alleged murder took place.

When he started to crawl toward her she smacked him because she hated to be near him and wanted to discourage him from coming close to her, the sheriff's office said.

After getting him up from a nap she put him in the bath, which at the time was half full of water, and left him on his own , investigators said.

When she returned and found the infant unconscious she allegedly did not attempt CPR or call 911 but instead dressed the child and took a bizarre drive around the area. With the child's body in the car she went to nearby supermarket, then home, then to Ocala, then to Tampa International Airport, the sheriff's office said.

Patel knew her son was dead because he had turned 'blue' and was 'cold to the touch.'

Patels's husband, Rasesh Patel, had last seen his son alive at 7.20 am Thursday when he left to take the couple's four-year-old daughter to preschool and go to work. He attempted to phone home between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm before returning home at 1.30 pm to find them gone, deputies said.

That evening he called police to report his wife and son missing, saying Neha was depressed and he was worried as she hadn't been taking her medication, Eleazer said.

Neha Patel came home between 2 and 2:40 a.m. Friday, and was confronted by her husband. She took the baby to his room and placed him in his crib, telling her husband she drowned their son, the sheriff's office said.

She became angry when she heard her husband calling relatives. Before driving off, she told her husband she didn't want to go to prison and was going to kill herself, according to the sheriff's office.

But when she heard him on the telephone to relatives she took off again for the airport telling her husband she would rather die than go to prison.

'I will be dead by tomorrow,' she told her husband, the Miami Herald reported.

The mother-of two had been acting strangely all week.

She resigned from her job as a CVS pharmacist on February 12, and talked about suicide. She said she would like to die in the Smoky Mountains, her husband told authorities.