The defendant told the judges she neither committed the crime nor abandoned the baby on purpose
Taiwan News
Date: 2016/12/12
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Sentencing for a migrant worker that confessed to dumping her baby who died soon after birth in a
Sentencing for a migrant worker that confessed to dumping her baby who died soon after he was born will take place on Dec 26(By Central News Agency)
leftovers bin will take place on Dec 26, Taipei District Court said on Monday.
In August, a pig farmer’s son in Xinwu District, Taoyuan City, reported to police that he found a male newborn baby wrapped in plastic bags inside a leftovers bin. The leftovers were being used to feed the pigs. Police investigation found that the bin was shipped from Taipei City to the pig farm by a company.
Police investigation led to 30-year-old Indonesian migrant worker Titik Suryani. She told police she was pregnant when she came to Taiwan to work in February, and that she gave birth to the baby at her employer’s bathroom on the evening of Aug 26. She said the baby had no breath after he was born. Not knowing what to do, she wrapped the baby in trash bags and dumped him inside a leftovers bin in the basement at daybreak, she added.
Suryani ‘s trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter and abandoning a body took place on Monday. Judges asked Suryani whether she admitted to the charges against her, and she nodded her head. [FULL STORY]
