Dubai: Police arrested the 20-year-old Indonesian maid for allegedly murdering her new born son and dumping him in a garbage container in Al Barsha.
Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police, said the municipality cleaner heard the baby’s faint cries and alerted the authorities. The baby was still alive, wrapped in a plastic bag, with severe head injuries and was covered in blood. He was rushed to the hospital, but declared death on arrival.
According to media reports, Al Mansouri said, 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 massive search operation was initiated for the baby’s mother by Dubai Police, in hospitals, clinics as well as in the residential areas of Al Barsha.
According to medical reports, the baby was strangulated and was hit with an hard object, causing severe injuries to head and several other parts of the body.
“A medical report showed the baby was strangled and hit on the head with a metal object, causing fractures to the skull,” Al Mansouri said.
When arrested, the maid confessed to being the mother of the deceased child. She told the police that since the baby was out of wedlock, she secretly delivered it in the washroom of her sponsor's house and strangled it. She said Asian man abandoned her when she told him she was expecting his baby. Although the child lost consciousness, the maid took him to be dead and placed him in a plastic bag before dumping him in the nearby garbage container, Al Mansouri added.
The maid’s boyfriend was also arrested, but the Arab family who employed the maid were not charged as they were in dark about the maid’s pregnancy and the child’s murder.