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Maid in Dubai suffocates her newborn baby to death

A housemaid in Dubai stands trial in Dubai after suffocating her newborn child to death inside a washroom at her female sponsor’s sister’s house in Al Qusais, Sept. 16, 2017.

The Filipina was produced in court on Wednesday, reported Khaleej Times. She admitted that she has smothered the baby by putting a piece of cloth inside his mouth.

A police lieutenant they have learned her case from the hospital where she was admitted. And upon investigation, said the report, they learned that it was a case of pregnancy out of an “illicit affair”.

When they checked the house of her sister’s employer, the authories found the baby lying lifeless inside a bag stuffed with women’s clothes.

“We found blood all across the main room. There was a bag containing lots of women’s clothes, and under the clothes was a dead newborn with a piece of cloth inside his mouth.”

Her sponsor’s sister testified, saying: “Around 1 am, I saw the accused exhausted and she told me it was because of her menstrual pain.

“She then went to the toilet and stayed there for about two hours.

“I knocked on the door to check on her several times but she did not open.

“When she got out later, she held a plastic bag which she put near the kitchen’s door. She rushed to sit on a chair.

“I urged her to let me take her to the hospital as she looked quite tired and unwell but she would not let me. I could see she was bleeding a lot.

“At 3 pm, we had to call an ambulance to take her to hospital. A doctor there told us the maid had just given birth and that was why she was bleeding.”

The next hearing will happen on January 3, 2018.

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