Days after newborn girl found dead in MP hospital, mother arrested: ‘Wanted a son’

The mother told investigators that she already had one daughter and had hoped that the second child would be a boy, police saidThe mother of a day-old baby girl has been arrested for allegedly strangling her daughter inside the maternity ward of the District Hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashoknagar, with police saying the woman, who was hoping for a son, killed her daughter in a fit of anger.