Woman admits killing newborn baby boy and leaving him in a toilet

A woman has admitted killing her newborn baby when she was just 14 and leaving the body in a toilet block almost 25 years ago.

The woman was extradited from Victoria after detectives travelled there to charge her.

A woman has admitted killing her newborn baby when she was a teenager and leaving the boy in a basin at a caravan park toilet block in Western Australia almost 25 years ago.

The woman cannot be named because she was just 14 when she committed the crime in Kam­balda, in WA’s Goldfields region, in July 1995.

Cold-case homicide squad ­detectives had charged her with wilful murder, but on Friday the offence was discontinued and she pleaded guilty to infanticide.

The case will return to Perth Children’s Court on July 6.

Detectives travelled to Victoria to charge the woman, who has other children. She was extradited to WA but was granted bail and ­allowed to return to Victoria. The baby did not have a name, but others have referred to him as Rijul, meaning “innocent” in Hindi.

Judge Gillian Braddock previously described the case as “traumatic and tragic”, saying the woman was also a victim of a crime as she was 13 when the baby was conceived. Judge Braddock said the case was unlike anything she had come across.

A man, who also cannot be named, was last year charged with historical child-sex offences in connection with the case.

AAP