The tragic story of a woman (already a mother of two children) who gave birth, cut her baby’s umbilical cord, put him in a series of plastic bags and left him (to die of asphyxiation over four hours) while she went off to work has seen a court in Aveiro deliver a sentence of over 13 years. The court ruled that the woman (aged 33 at the time) was guilty of aggravated murder and the profaning of a corpse. The death had been minutely planned, judges decided. The woman’s defence lawyer has said his client will be appealing – arguing that the charge should have been infanticide, “taking into account the woman’s mental state at the time of the crime”.
Mother who left newborn to die in rubbish gets 13 years
