While both parents have been charged, Sawyer's bond was reduced because police still are investigating what role, if any, she played in the possible rape of her child, Nanney said. She was charged because "I could not exclude her from being part of it, so I had to charge her also," he said. "I could not exclude her at the time from being a participant of it."
Nanney said hospital officials notified police of the possible rape after noticing injuries to the child's rear during a routine examination given before newborns are released from the hospital.

"There were some skin tears in and around the private (back) area of the child," he said.

The investigation led to the child's parents, Nanney said, and there was no indication that any hospital worker was involved in the incident.

"Based on the investigation, we ruled out everyone but the mom and the dad," Nanney said.

The Tennessee Department of Children's Services has placed the baby girl with a relative, Nanney said. The parents are not allowed to have contact with the girl, who is now about 6 weeks old.

The couple was engaged to be married and was living at the Value Inn Motel on Highland Drive in McKenzie at the time of the incident. Sawyer is a McKenzie native, and Goodrum also has relatives living in Carroll County, though Nanney did not know his hometown.

Goodrum is being held in the Carroll County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond. Sawyer's bond was reduced to $5,000 after her arraignment. Nanney did not know if she still was being held or had been released.

While no trial date has been set, Nanney said one probably would not occur before September.

Fulton County Coroner Harry Murtiff said 10-year-old Lauren was shot in the chest, abdomen and back, and 5-year-old Jacob was shot in the heart, left cheek and right flank.

The children's mother, Patricia Saunders, who told authorities she was stabbed by her husband before the standoff, was recovering at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, her father said.

She is "doing well, and we expect a full recovery," Staczek said.

Clarence Saunders called 911 around 7 a.m. and reported that his wife was bleeding from a cut to the abdomen, authorities said.

"What did she cut herself on, sir?" the dispatcher asked, according to a tape of the 911 call.

"I don't know. I'm just, I'm just frantic, and she is, too," Saunders replied.

Patricia Saunders told medical personnel her husband had stabbed her, and they summoned sheriff's deputies to the house near Swanton, about 30 miles west of Toledo.

Deputy Rick Brock, who entered the home after learning children were inside, was shot twice in the shoulder, the sheriff's office said.

After several calls to the home went unanswered, officers entered the home and found the three bodies, authorities said.

Hospital officials would not release the deputy's condition on Sunday, and the sheriff's office said it did not know.

Clarence Saunders had worked as a contract employee in the University of Findlay's environmental and emergency management school, spokesman Suzanne English said. Neighbors said he taught at several colleges.

Patricia Saunders is president of Alternative Management, an employment agency and personnel and safety consulting company based in Swanton.

Staczek declined to comment on marital problems that his daughter may have been having with Saunders. "Everybody has problems," he said.