Police said the woman killed her child posing as a sick infant which would be injurious to studies (Representational)
Pathanamthitta:
The mother of a 27-day-old boy was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing her by banging her head against a wall, police said.
According to police, the premature baby was regularly ill and her incessant crying prompted the 21-year-old mother to commit the crime.
Police said that the incident happened on December 9. The child was taken to a hospital in Pathanamthitta at 11 am that day and brought back home with the medicine prescribed by the doctors.
Thereafter, the infant’s condition deteriorated during the day and the child was taken to the taluk hospital where he died.
Subsequently, a case was registered based on the statement given by Father Joji Thomas, who ran an ashram where the woman worked in the kitchen and lived with her 45-year-old boyfriend, police said.
On December 10, after the post-mortem, a police officer spoke to the police-surgeon and it was found that the child had injury marks on the back of the head.
The damage was not recognizable or visible due to the infant’s thin skull, police said, adding that the officer had met the child’s parents and questioned them.
As the woman showed some mental discomfort, she was not questioned in detail and on inquiring about the couple, the police found that they had met each other over phone and started living together in the ashram.
Police said that the girl’s father was already married and the woman was living with him after learning about this.
Police said subsequent interrogation revealed that the mother herself had killed the child and was arrested.
Police said the woman was studying in a private institution in Kottayam when she met her boyfriend over the phone and decided to kill the child as a sick infant would be detrimental to her further studies.
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