A 24-year-old Indonesian woman has confessed to authorities that she killed her baby out of shame because she was not married.
According
to the police, the woman worked as an attendant at a supermarket in
Surabaya but returning to her aunt’s house in the village after she got
pregnant for her boyfriend. She reportedly gave birth to her son in the
bathroom of her aunt’s house on Wednesday.
“At that moment, LA asked if she could get her some scissors. The
homeowner did not know that LA was giving birth in the bathroom,”
Trenggalek Police Chief Donny Adityawarman said on Monday as quoted by
Tribun.
Police say the same scissors used in cutting the umbilical cord was
what she used to stab her baby in the chest, penetrating his lungs.
She
proceeded to putting the baby's remains in a bag of cement mix and
threw it behind the house. Her aunt however got suspicious due to the
blood in the bathroom.
The baby was found, still alive, and rushed to the local medical
center. But the injuries it had sustained were already too great and it
died.
Lisa did not resist arrest when the police came for her
and she is being detained while her case is being processed. Police say
they have enough evidence to convict her but have not yet named the
exact charges she will face.
Given a ski mask and brought out to
face the media at a police press conference on Monday, LA was asked how
she could have done such a thing.
“Malu, belum nikah (Shame, I’m not married yet),” she said quietly.
The
stigma of zina (the Islamic term for sin of adultery) is so strong in
some parts of Indonesia that many girls below the age of 18 get married
just to avoid it
A 24-year-old woman from East Java, Indonesia
who committed the unthinkable crime of killing her own newborn baby,
told authorities she did so out of shame because she was not married.
According
to the police, the woman identified simply as LA, a resident of
Trenggalek Regency’s Bandoagung Village, had previously worked in a
supermarket in Surabaya but returned to her aunt’s house in the village
after she got pregnant for her boyfriend.
She gave birth to a baby boy in the bathroom of her aunt’s house on Wednesday.
“At
that moment, LA asked if she could get her some scissors. The homeowner
did not know that LA was giving birth in the bathroom,” Trenggalek
Police Chief Donny Adityawarman said on Monday as quoted by Tribun.
The
scissors were used to cut the baby’s umbilical cord. But police say LA
used the same scissors to stab her baby in the chest, penetrating his
lungs.
She then put the newborn into a bag of cement mix and
threw it behind the house. But LA’s aunt soon grew suspicious that her
niece had given birth due to the blood in the bathroom.
Others
in the neighborhood heard the sound of crying from behind the house. The
baby was found, still alive, and rushed to the local medical center.
But the injuries it had sustained were already too great and it died.
Lisa
did not resist arrest when the police came for her and she is being
detained while her case is being processed. Police say they have enough
evidence to convict her but have not yet named the exact charges she
will face.
Given a ski mask and brought out to face the media at
a police press conference on Monday, LA was asked how she could have
done such a thing.
“Malu, belum nikah (Shame, I’m not married yet),” she said quietly.
The
stigma of zina (the Islamic term for sin of adultery) is so strong in
some parts of Indonesia that many girls below the age of 18 get married
just to avoid it.
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