Newborn found buried in thiruvananthapuram, mother in police custody
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The shame and accompanying scrutiny around having a baby outside a marriage have led to similar crimes in the past. In August last year, a woman was accused of killing her newborn in
Kattappana of Idukki. The unmarried woman, who was an employee in a bank, gave birth at a private hostel. None of her family members, colleagues or hostel mates knew about the pregnancy. Her
elder sister, who shared a room with her in the hostel, did not know of it either. When the woman went into labour, she asked her sister to get some medicines from outside. By the time the
sister returned, she had delivered the baby. Though she claimed that it was a stillborn child, the postmortem report revealed that the baby had been killed.