(March 22, Colombo - Lanka Polity) Another Sri Lankan woman threw her new born baby to a river on March 20, several days after a similar incident was highlighted by local media.
Just two days before the three-year-old toddler succumbed, the second baby was killed within three hours of its birth and was thrown into a river,
The incident was reported from Ambalangoda, a town in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
The mother was arrested and she had confessed about the crime. She told to police the child was conceived as a result of an affiar with a Bangladeshi as the woman was working as a housemaid in Dubai. The father of the child is a driver in the house, according to the woman's confession. The employers have sent her back after the pregnancy was disclosed.
This woman is also a tsunami victim as same as the first woman that threw her child to River Kalu two weeks ago. She is 41 years old and has five other children of whom two daughters are married. She is a single mother abandoned by her legal husband.
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