Mother arrested for decapitating baby

A woman from America has been charged with the murder of her newborn baby after the headless infant was found hidden under a kitchen sink.

25-year-old Laura Lynn Hickey was arrested yesterday following a week long investigation into the death of her newborn baby. Hickey was taken to hospital last Wednesday (2nd March) after neighbours on her trailer park in Centralia, Washington heard her cries for help. Hickey told medics at Centralia Providence Hospital that she was having a miscarriage, but following an examination the doctors discovered Hickey had already given birth. Hickey then confessed that she had given birth prematurely to a 21-week-old male foetus and the child could be found under the kitchen sink in her trailer home.

When police recovered the body they found the child had been decapitated and an investigation began. An autopsy revealed that the baby was alive at the time of birth and the cause of death had been decapitation.

Hickey has been charged with first-degree murder.

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