UAE | Crime
Maid 'thought she delivered a dead baby girl'
A housemaid thought she delivered a dead baby girl in a driving school before she put her in a plastic bag, which she dumped in a garbage container, her lawyer told a court yesterday.
- By Bassam Za'za' Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 May 11, 2007
Dubai: A housemaid thought she delivered a dead baby girl in a driving school before she put her in a plastic bag, which she dumped in a garbage container, her lawyer told a court yesterday.
"My client didn't intend to kill her newborn. She thought she delivered a dead baby girl inside the toilet of a driving school, where she sat for a driving test. When her labour contractions started, she delivered the girl ... The baby's face was blue and my client thought her baby had died, so she put her in the bag," the lawyer of the Filipina, M.K., told the Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday.
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