SINGAPORE: A Malaysian college pupil who killed her new child baby was convicted of homicide on Thursday (Oct 24) by a court docket in the UK.
Teo Jia Xin, 22, positioned the infant in a cereal field shortly after giving beginning on Mar 4. The field was put in a sealable plastic bag which Teo hid in a suitcase.
Police found the physique two days later.
“Child Teo was alive after beginning and will have survived however Jia Xin Teo made the choice to put her inside a cereal field figuring out that it might kill her,” stated James Leslie Francis of the Crown Prosecution Service.
In accordance with Malaysian media, West Midlands police had been known as to Teo’s residence two days after she visited a hospital exhibiting indicators of getting given beginning.
Hospital workers requested if she had not too long ago delivered a child, however Teo denied this.
She admitted to giving beginning beneath police questioning.
In accordance with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Teo hid her being pregnant from everybody she knew and arrived within the UK figuring out she would probably give beginning there.
This was reportedly as a result of she was afraid it might have an effect on her research, stated the New Straits Instances.
Teo denied murdering her child, a woman, and stated she had been listening to voices telling her to kill the kid. This defence was rejected by the jury.
Teo was convicted at Warwick Crown Court docket of 1 depend of homicide and shall be sentenced on Friday.
