Baby killer mum jailed for life after 'newborn found dead in cereal box inside suitcase'

Jia Xin Teo gave commencement to her babe daughter, and past hid her successful a cereal container wrong a suitcase, with the newborn's corpse recovered 2 days aboriginal by West Midlands Police

A pistillate has been convicted of killing her newborn daughter and stuffing her into a cereal box.

Jia Xin Teo feared her household successful Malaysia would find retired astir her pregnancy and disrupt her studies astatine Coventry University, truthful she concealed the information she was carrying the child. On March 4, aft delivering her babe afloat term, she hid it successful a cereal box, placed the newborn into a sealable integrative container and past enactment it successful a suitcase, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Two days later, the days aged babe was recovered dormant by West Midlands Police. Teo initially denied murder, claiming that she had heard voices instructing her to termination oregon harm the child.

A assemblage astatine Warwick Crown Court decided that the 22-year-old had murdered the baby, and she was jailed for a minimum word of 17 years, reports Coventry Live.

In a connection issued contiguous (October 25), Coventry Police said: “A Coventry pistillate who murdered her newborn girl successful the metropolis has been jailed. Jia Xin Teo was convicted yesterday (October 24) of the execution of the babe successful March.

“Now, she has been sentenced astatine Warwick Crown Court, being jailed for a minimum of 17 years. We were called to an code successful Raglan Street connected March 6 aft concerns were raised for the child.

“Officers attended and sadly recovered her assemblage successful a box. Teo was arrested and questioned, admitting to officers she had fixed commencement and hidden it from her flatmates. She was convicted connected October 24.”

James Leslie Francis, from the Crown Prosecution Service, added: “Jia Xin Teo hid her gestation from everyone she knew and arrived successful the UK knowing that she was apt to springiness commencement here. She had accidental to question assistance but alternatively chose to transportation her gestation successful concealed and springiness commencement alone.

“After she gave birth, she inactive did not archer anybody and refused to spell to the infirmary to get checked. She lied to friends who cared astir her, to doctors astatine the hospital, and to the constabulary truthful that nary 1 recovered her baby.

“She did not archer the constabulary wherever she hid her babe until 2 days had passed by which clip the babe would surely beryllium dead. Baby Teo was live aft commencement and could person survived, but Jia Xin Teo made the determination to spot her wrong a cereal box, knowing that it would termination her.”