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Police search for baby’s body after mother’s confession

PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle 03.02.2012 15:40
Police are still searching for the body of a six-month old child after her mother confessed to putting it by a riverbank near Sosnowiec, southern Poland, after “an accident at home”.

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Police still searching for missing child: photo - PAP/Andrzej Grygiel

The young child, Magda, went missing on 24 January, after her mother, Katarzyna, initially claimed that she had been attacked in the street in Sosnowiec and someone kidnapped the child.

But last night, after regular appeals by police for information from the public, her mother apparently confessed to a famous private detective in Poland, Krzysztof Rutkowski, that the child died after she had dropped her on the floor at home.

“The child fell from the arms of Katarzyna W. and hit [the floor] of the apartment. The mother has admitted to causing the death by accident,” said Rutkowski, who once hosted his own TV show in Poland.

The mother told the detective, who was hired by the family to find the missing girl, that she put the now dead Magda in a pram and took the body to the riverbank and left her “by a tree”.

After searching the area with sniffer dogs the police have yet to find the body, however.

Today, at another press conference, Detective Rutkowski said that the mother, Katarzyna, who is in a highly distressed frame of mind, had refused a lie detection test during cross-examination this week.

He also said that an examination of a computer at the family home revealed that Katarzyna had searched on the internet “how to cheat a polygraph test”.

The mother was taken last night to the Regional Police Headquarters in Katowice. (pg)

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