Dubai: One Dubai based immigrant woman has been sentenced to seven years in jail for murdering her newborn baby just 15 minutes after the delivery.
As per the Court hearing, the 28-year-old woman had an illegal affair with a stranger. She gave birth to a baby girl in her room in a shared apartment in the Al Muraqqabat area of Dubai.
According to sources, a teenager living in a shared accommodation reported the incident to Dubai police after a woman put her baby’s body in a black garbage bag and asked him to dump it in a trash bin.
“She looked and walked like a pregnant lady. I heard her in pain, and after a few minutes, I heard the baby crying. After that, about 15 minutes later, it was all silent. After three days of her delivery, I saw her in the gallery, holding a big black bag covered in plastic. She told me to dump the poly- bag in the garbage bin, saying that the bag belonged to her friend, said the witness on record. He carried the bag downstairs, but she told him to throw it away from the building.
Smothering the baby
She stooped a taxi, and I went along with her. After that, I opened the bag and found the body of a newborn in it.
Dubai Police arrested the mother. She admitted to suffocating the newborn with a pillow. She told police officers she had a sexual affair with a man and became pregnant.
She said that she delivered the baby to her room. When a newborn baby started crying, she put a pillow on her face and pressed it hard until she died. She kept the body in her room for three days, said a policeman on record.
The woman later showed the body in a bag, and she covered the body with a cloth and decided to dump the body in the trash bin.
A medical report showed that she was habitual of drugs. A medical report also indicates that the body was born alive but sustained major fractures in her chest and skull, causing her to bleed to death.
Mentally Fit:
The woman’s lawyer asked for doctors’ opinions about his client’s mental health, but a medical report confirmed that she was mentally fit and responsible for her actions. The woman was charged with deliberate murder and consumption of illegal substances.