NONGSTOIN: A woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby in the roadside in Pengthlen locality of Tiehsaw village was apprehended by the Dorbar shnong of Tiehsaw village on Friday.
The mother of the baby girl who was abandoned was identified as Shantidaris Khardewsaw, 23, of Sohshynrut in West Khasi Hills. She was a domestic help in a house at Tiehsaw village.
After the news was spread to every corner in Tiehsaw village and the whole of Nongstoin,
The Dorbar shnong of Tiehsaw in a bid to trace the mother began interrogating villagers soon after news spread that the body of a newborn was found on Wednesday.
The woman however confessed about her crime to the owner of the house where she was working after he suspected her and questioned her about the matter for hours. He immediately informed the head of Tiehsaw village and after formal interrogation from the village elders, she was handed over to the Nongstoin police.
Sources informed that Shantidaris gave birth to a stillborn baby girl on Wednesday and secretly wrapped her dead child in a newspaper and hid it in the house’s backyard with an intention to take it to a “safe place”.
But when she returned home, the baby was already taken away, presumably by street dogs to the roadside where she was located. Shantidaris said she was too “scared” to fetch her dead baby thereafter.
