Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl in connection with an infanticide case in Sau Mau Ping on November 26.
At about 12.44pm that day, the girl and a newborn girl were brought to United Christian Hospital for medical treatment. The baby was unconscious and was later certified dead.
Initial investigations revealed that the girl put the baby girl into plastic bags after she gave birth to it in the toilet of her residence in Po Tat Estate in the small hours of that day. Her father later accompanied her to hospital.
A post-mortem examination today was unable to establish the cause of the baby's death.
