A Peruvian mother of two killed
her newborn baby earlier this month and hid the body in a
cupboard, police said Tuesday.
The woman, 36, has been ordered to sign in with police in
Turin pending indictment, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say she killed the baby - who would have been
her third child - shortly after giving birth to it in in the
eighth month of pregnancy in a Turin flat.
Doctors at the northwestern city's Maria Vittoria Hospital
called police on the night of October 3, when the woman turned
up with severe post-partum hemorrhage but wouldn't disclose how
she came to be in that condition.
Police went to her flat, where they questioned her husband
- a fellow Peruvian aged 35 - and subsequently found the tiny
body wrapped in a plastic bag in the bedroom closet.
An autopsy revealed the baby had died after birth.
The couple have two children aged five and seven.
Investigators say the motive may have had to do with the
couple's poverty.
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