A woman killed her newborn baby: she cut off his legs and arms | the Chronicle

Last Tuesday, around 10 a.m., the inhabitants of the Basel city of Itaboraí they 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 death of the premature baby it was the same mother, who was surprised a few meters from the place still stained with blood.

According to the report of the Niterói, São Gonçalo and Itaboraí Homicide Police Station (DHNSGI), officers they followed a trail of blood which started from the vacant place. The initial suspicion was the theory of a 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 hit the placenta and the umbilical cord around the scene of the accident, 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 by trying to wash away the blood spilled on the entrance to the house, located just 500 meters from the final destination of the newborn. 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. How the autopsy performed on the baby revealed that i was born alive, with barely six months of gestation, Maurilia will be judged by the crime of aggravated homicide and defamation of a corpse.

As reported to São Gonçalo the delegate Bruno Cleuder Melo, director of the DHNSGI, the woman would have decided to dismember her daughter make identification more difficult. Forensic examinations carried out at the Legal Medical Institute of Tribobó confirmed that the mother herself was responsible for the death of the young girl, who died of “neck constriction”.

The civilian police adviser informed local media that “After information and investigation, the mother of the young girl was identified and arrested for defamation of a corpse and aggravated homicide. It will be sent to the penitentiary system and will be at the disposal of the Justice“.