From The Times of India, 9 October 2009, Madurai
Infanticide in Tamil Nadu: Twin girls killed
MADURAI: In a shocking case of female infanticide in southern Tamil Nadu, a woman allegedly murdered one of her newborn twins two weeks ago by slitting the infant's throat, while her mother strangled the other. Both the women were arrested in Thoothukudi district on Thursday.
The police said the women were disappointed that both the babies were girls. They feared the family would incur a huge expenditure in their medical treatment, since they were born premature.
According to police, Revathy (21), wife of an autodriver in Thoothukudi district, was eight months pregnant. She went into labour on September 23 and was rushed to the district government hospital where she delivered the twins. The babies weighed about two kg each.
The doctors kept the newborns in an incubator and the babies were brought out only for breast-feeding. According to the police, on Thursday morning, Revathy and her mother Thennila (45), had taken the infants for feeding after informing the nurse. After being with the infants for a while, they rushed back to the incubator room and created a commotion, demanding to know what the nursing staff had done to the babies, as they were unconscious.
The hospital's chief maternity officer Lourdes Alpino, who checked the babies, found traces of blood on one of them and became suspicious and informed the police.
The mother and grandmother later reportedly confessed to having killed the infants.
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