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GALVESTON, TX—Joshua Mauldin stared into thin air as his taped confession was played to the jury Tuesday.

“I put her head in first,” Mauldin said as he confessed to putting his 2-month-old daughter in a hotel microwave.  “She was wearing a onesie.”

He went on to say that before putting the child into the microwave, he put her on the bed and hit her.

“I put her in the safe for five seconds,” Mauldin said.

Then, he said he put her in the refrigerator.

“I shut the door for 10 seconds,” Mauldin said.

After taking her out of the refrigerator, Mauldin said he stuffed her into the microwave.

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He said after allegedly leaving 2-month-old Ana in the microwave for 10 seconds, he took her out and put her on the bed.

“I felt she was warm. I was freaked out I didn’t notice she was burned,” he said.

“Her face looked like porcelain, really shiny, jelly-looking,” Mauldin said.

It was at that point, Mauldin said, his wife came back into the room and called 911.

The baby was taken to the hospital, and Mauldin went to talk to police.

“I told [the police] I was in the process of making coffee. … There was a cup in the night stand, and it spilled on her,” Mauldin said.

Mauldin described his state while everything was developing.

“I’m feeling nervous—looking in the bright side,” he said. “I’m feeling optimistic; police are believing the story right now.”

The investigator questioned the young father’s sanity during the interview.  

“You’re not a mad insane person, are you?” the investigator asked.

“No,” Mauldin answered.

After the jury viewed Mauldin’s taped confession, Galveston investigator Holly Johnson took the stand.

“What was his demeanor?” asked defense attorney, Sam Cammack.

“Just like he is now,” answered the investigator.

“How is that?” asked Cammack.

“Not visibly shaken, not visibly upset,” Johnson said.

Cammack also asked Johnson about who she interviewed to investigate Mauldin’s medical history.

“When it comes to injury to the child, my job is to find out who did it,” she said.

Cammack wrote down a list of doctors who had apparently treated Mauldin in the past on an eraser board for the investigator to see.

“I have not had any knowledge of these people you’re answered on the board,” Johnson said.