Woman drowned her newborn baby 15-year-old daughter to «avoid embarrassment»

In California , will judge the 43-year-old woman who is accused of killing her newborn grandchild in November last year.

According to court documents, 15-year-old resident of Bakersfield (name withheld) gave birth to a child at home in the bathroom. Shortly after birth in the bathroom went 23-year-old cousin of the girl and took her crying newborn.

Baby he handed to the mother of a teenage girl who drowned her baby, wrapped it in a garbage bag and buried in a flowerbed near the house.

All this, according to the woman, she did, «to protect the family from shame.» Baby’s body found earlier this week after the now 16-year-old girl confessed to her friend what happened and she called the police.

The accused 43-year-old Beant Kaur Dillon, who is a licensed nurse, yesterday, February 28, in court pleaded not guilty.

The police also arrested the girl’s father and husband of the accused, 47-year-old Jagsir Singh. He is accused of complicity, because he is not reported to the police and gave permission to bury the baby in the yard. Law enforcers are searching for is also the cousin of the girl Maxinterval Singh Mann.

The incident occurred in the area of Bakersfield, which are mostly Sikhs.

The representatives of this ethnic group are the followers of Sikhism. This religion founded in the XV century in the Indian Punjab.

«This is an alarming signal to the community,» said Mona Gill, co-founder of the women’s Association Sikh Bakersfield.

According to her, in all Indian cultures teen pregnancy is considered taboo. This is usually kept secret, that puts huge psychological pressure on adolescent girls.

«This tragedy is a cruel signal which showed that we need to keep up with the times. We can’t pretend that certain things do not exist or do not occur. The world is changing, culture is changing,» added Gill.

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