Maid kills baby, dumps body in garbage

Dubai Police arrested an Indonesian housemaid on charges of murdering her newborn son by strangling him and hitting him on the head with a metal object before dumping him in the garbage, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

A dustman who was emptying the waste bins in the morning found the baby alive wrapped in a plastic bag after hearing a faint voice coming from the bin.

The cleaner informed the police, who mounted a manhunt for the killer just after the murder in February, ‘Emarat Al Youm’ daily said.

It quoted Major-General Khalil Al Mansouri, Deputy Police Commander-in-Chief for  criminal investigation, as saying the maid was arrested this week and that she killed her son after she was impregnated through an affair with an Asian man in Barsha.

“A medical report showed the baby was strangled and hit on the head with a metal object, causing fractures to the skull,” he said.

He said the maid’s boyfriend was also arrested and that the Arab family which had employed her was not involved in the crime as it had not known about her pregnancy and the murder.
 

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