Doctor arrested over murder of housemaid’s child
The Batticaloa police on Monday arrested a medical doctor attached to the Kandy General Hospital for the alleged murder of a new born baby in 2017.
The police say that the doctor had allegedly murdered the child born to a domestic aide working at his house while he was serving at the Batticaloa hospital in 2017.
The 36-year-old doctor, a resident of Saindamaruthu has been arrested in this regards. His wife too is a medical doctor.
The crime took place on March 26, 2017 while both the arrested doctor and his wife were working at the Batticaloa Hospital.
Both of them had worked in Batticaloa Hospital for four years and had been residing in a rented house in Batticaloa town. The police say that a 38-year-old woman has been working as a domestic aide at their residence.The maid is a resident of Ampara.
Police said that the woman is a person who lived separately from her husband and while the doctor’s wife was engaged in night shift she had started an illicit relationship with the suspect doctor.
After she got pregnant the domestic aide had used large clothes to hide her pregnancy from the lady doctor.
On March 26, 2017, while the doctor’s wife went for night shift duty, the maid had given birth to a child.
According to the police, the doctor had allegedly strangled the infant and then had wrapped the body in a piece of cloth and had given it to the maid asking her to dispose it in the lagoon.
The maid has confessed that as she was unable to walk due to severe pain, the dead body was taken out of the house and thrown into the nearby drinking well.
The doctor’s wife after seeing the maid lying in a blood scattered room had taken steps to hospitalize the maid.
The doctors who examined her there stated that an abortion had been performed on her.
The doctor’s wife later had sent her to her hometown in Ampara after paying the salary due to her.
A few days later, due to a stench coming out from the drinking well, the doctor had employed a worker to empty the water from the well and the decomposed body of the baby was found.
Accordingly, the police DNA investigations has revealed that the child belongs to the doctor and the maid.