A 22-year-old mother was arrested in Mayfair on Friday for allegedly killing her child, Johannesburg Central Police said.
Police spokesperson Xoli Mbele said they were contacted by the suspect's employer after she discovered a bucket next to the bin with blood and a female foetus, of about seven months, in it.
Paramedics certified the child dead on the scene.
The employer became suspicious after the suspect was in the bathroom for more than two hours with tap water running. She told her boss that she was washing her clothes but the washing powder was in the kitchen.
Mbele says she left the bathroom with a bucket and when the employer sent her to the shop she went to check the bucket and made the gruesome discovery.
The suspect is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.
- African News Agency (ANA),
