'I did not want this child. I don't even know who's its father.'
A Ukrainian mother is under investigation after allegedly drowning her newborn son in a faeces-filled cesspit and burying him in a shallow grave.
The 35-year-old woman, identified only as Hanna, secretly delivered a full-term boy in a pit toilet near her house, police say.
Detectives believe she let the child fall through the drop hole on purpose while trying to get rid of him.
After giving birth, Hanna cut the umbilical cord at home, leaving the newborn to drown in faeces, according to reports.
There is a high likelihood that the child was born alive, investigators say.
The baby's body was left in the pit for a day, before the mother asked a next-door neighbor to pull it out and bury it in the woods, according to police reports.
Ivan told local media: 'She [Hanna] said she delivered a dead baby. Asked if I could pull the body out of the toilet so we could bury it.
'I got it out. Washed it. Wrapped in cloth.
'Then we went to a site in the woods where I dug up a grave and buried it.'
Mother gives birth on the toilet before 'drowning her newborn'
A Ukrainian mother is under investigation after allegedly drowning her newborn son in a faeces-filled cesspit and burying him in a shallow grave.
