She cut off the arms and legs of her newborn baby

Last Tuesday, around 10 a.m., residents of the Brazilian city of Itaboraí found the body of a newborn in a vacant lot. The girl I had no arms or legs. When the police arrived at the scene of the crime, they discovered that the person responsible for the premature baby’s death was the mother herself, who was surprised a few meters from the scene still stained with blood.

Officers followed a trail of blood that started from the empty site. The initial suspicion was the theory of an animal attack product of the omission of parents, which would explain the lack of limbs in the body of the newborn.

Following the macabre trail, the agents they crossed the placenta and the umbilical cord near the accident site, scattered through the streets of Itaboraí, the metropolitan center of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

The trail continued for 500 meters until it reached the house of Maurilia de Carvalho Sousa, the mother of the child. Officers surprised Maurilia’s mother as she attempted to wash away the blood that had been strewn at the entrance to the house, located just 500 meters from the newborn’s final destination. Upon entering the residence, the police easily located Maurilia, whose legs and feet they were still splashed with red.

The 41-year-old woman, who would have given birth at home Hours earlier, she had first been transferred to a maternity hospital for relevant postpartum medical care. After receiving her release, she was officially detained. While the autopsy performed on the baby revealed that she was born alive, with only six months gestation, Maurilia will be tried for the crime of aggravated homicide and defamation of a corpse..

The woman would have decided to dismember her daughter make identification more difficult. Forensic examinations carried out at the Medical and Legal Institute of Tribobó confirmed that the mother herself was responsible for the death of the girl, who died from a “constricted neck.”.

Brazilian police arrested the murderous mother and was at the disposal of Justice.