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28 March 2024

Departing maid leaves dead baby in family fridge

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An Asian housemaid who returned home from Saudi Arabia had left her dead infant in the fridge only to be found by her employer nearly two months after her departure, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Saturday.

The unnamed Saudi man from the eastern province of Ihsaa froze before the freezer as he opened the main fridge in the attic to take out some frozen food.

“He found a newborn baby inside the freezer with her umbilical cord still not cut off…he told police that he was stunned when he saw the infant and accused his housemaid of placing her baby there before leaving the kingdom two months ago,” the Saudi Arabic language daily 'Alikhbariya' said.

The paper quoted a police spokesman as saying the maid had apparently concealed the infant following an illegitimate relationship. “It is one of the ugliest crimes committed against new born babies in the country,” said Lt Mohammed Al- Shahri, police spokesman in the eastern region.