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MANZINI – Yet another woman will face the wrath of the law after being arrested for allegedly strangulating to death her day-old baby in front of her other children.

She is suspected to have kept the corpse of the infant in the house for 24 hours prior to disposing it in a pit latrine.Information gathered from statements submitted in court was that the accused person allegedly did not want the child and had on several occasions allegedly tried to terminate the pregnancy but failed.

Dlamini revealed in statements submitted in court that she was in labour for more than 12 hours while inside her flat with her two other children, aged four and two. She admitted in the statements that she allegedly strangled her newborn to death and in the presence of the two minors during the early hours about a week ago.

She also revealed in her statement that after allegedly killing the newborn, she put the corpse of the newborn into plastic bags. The accused person disclosed that she placed the corpse beside her on the bed and slept until the morning.

“I woke up and went to the hospital to get my medication and returned hours later. The baby was still on the bed and again I spent another night with it, until the following morning. I then took the corpse and went to the pit latrine and dumped it there, without anyone noticing,” Dlamini alleged in her statements.

The police are said to have failed to apprehend the suspect after getting wind of the murder. Dlamini, who was on the run for five days, was eventually arrested at her parental home at Nsingweni. When she was caught, she disclosed to the police that the baby had been dumped inside the pit latrine. The accused person later led the team of police officers to the scene and the corpse was retrieved.