A girl has been arrested on suspicion of decapitating her newborn baby and leaving her in a rubbish bin.
The little girl was born alive and was just five days old when she was killed.
Her body was found dismembered in plastic bags in a recycling plant within the village of Loeches on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, last December.
Officers arrested an Ecuadorian woman believed to be the child’s mother today, the Spanish news outlet En boca de todos reported.
The suspect has not been named but has been described as a married woman with children.
Her house within the working-class Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas is being searched by officers.
En boca de todos reported earlier that she was not in custody as she stays at her home while officers search it.
The kid she is accused of killing was discovered by a employee on the recycling plant on December 12, 2024.
Investigators consider she was almost definitely killed with a knife after which dumped in garbage bags.
Officers had been working on the speculation that the child’s stays reached the plant’s waste bins after being thrown right into a container within the Vallecas neighbourhood near the M-30 motorway.
A sniffer dog called Dylan, specialised in detecting biological stays, also took part within the investigations on the waste plant.
DNA tests on the newborn’s dead body revealed that she was of Latin American origin.
The Civil Guard, as a part of Operation Natal, last week asked for the general public’s assist in identifying a lady they estimated to be around 40 who had been pregnant in the course of the last months of last yr.
A police spokesman said on the time: “’From the investigations carried out to date, it has been possible to find out that the stays would correspond to a female baby and that she was born alive.
‘There are indications that may point to her death being of a violent nature.
‘We’re looking for the general public’s assist in clarifying this criminal act and asking anyone who could have any information of interest to contact us.’
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