A 15-day-old girl was found de@d inside a cabinet at her home in northeast Brazil after her own mother confessed to k!lling her.
Eduarda de Oliveira provided the Alagoas Civil Police five different versions of Ana de Oliveira’s disappearance before she finally told family members of the baby’s whereabouts on Tuesday, April 15.
Little Ana was stuffed into a plastic bag and hidden in a wooden cabinet in the laundry room of Eduarda’s residence in Novo Lino’s laundry room.
The 22-year-old mother first told investigators that Ana’s de@th was an accident.
She alleged that her daughter choked while she was breastfeeding her and that she was unable to revive her.
Eduarda then admitted to suffocating Ana because the baby’s cries and the noise from a bar near the family home had deprived her of sleep on two consecutive nights.
Eduarda was arrested for concealing a body and has not been charged with murd£r.
Authorities were led on a citywide search Friday, April 11, after Eduarda reported that Ana was ripped out of her hands by four men.
The mother-of-two claimed she was approached by the suspects in the black vehicle while she was waiting with her five-year-old son for his school bus to arrive.
She then changed her story and reported that a blonde woman sitting in the back of the car had aimed a gun at her and forced her to hand over Ana through the car window before the driver sped off.
Eduarda later retracted the version of the event and claimed the four men flashed knives at her and kidnapped the baby.
Her story unravelled even more as she claimed she was intercepted by two men on foot on a highway and snatched Ana away from her.
Eduarda then told investigators that she forgot to lock the front gate to her home and that two hooded men broke into the residence Friday around midnight and s£xually abused gunpoint while her children were sleeping.
Surveillance cameras inspected by the police discredited each of her accounts.
Police used a sniffer dog and searched the home Monday but were unable to locate the baby.
Investigators are looking into whether another person helped Eduarda hide Ana’s body.
“The mother may have become desperate and asked for help from a family member to do this,” Alagoas Civil Police chief Igor Diego said, according to Brazilian news outlet G1.
“And taking advantage of this moment when there was no one in the house, no one on the street, because the child’s mother was in another region of Novo Lino, this person may have taken the body and put it in the closet,” Diego added. “These are things that the investigation will still work on.”
