Woman arrested after newborn baby found decapitated and dismembered in rubbish bin
TRAGIC UPDATE Woman arrested after newborn baby found decapitated and dismembered in rubbish bin
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POLICE have arrested a woman suspected of decapitating her new-born baby and dumping her remains in a rubbish bin.
Details of the sickening crime first emerged last week when detectives launched an urgent appeal to find the mother.
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Civil guard officers have arrested an Ecuadorian immigrant in relation to the baby
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The site where horrified workers came across the sickening discovery
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Doctors confirmed the little girl was born alive and was just five days old when she was mutilated and abandoned.
Today Civil Guard officers in Madrid arrested an immigrant born in Ecuador.
Reports this afternoon said police were searching her house in the working-class Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas.
The suspect, who has been taken into custody, has not been named but has been described locally as a married woman with children.
The police operation to snare the person responsible for the horror crime was launched on December 12 when a recycling centre worker in the small town of Loeches near the Spanish capital found the baby's remains in several plastic bags.
A specialist dog assisted cops in the investigations at the waste plant.
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