British Pakistani girl described in court papers as “T” who hid the body of her newborn baby in a shoebox under her bed after concealing the pregnancy from her family has failed to persuade High Court judges her identity should be kept from the public.
British Pakistani Girl, “T” from Keighley to be Named who Hid Body of Newborn in Shoebox
The girl who was 19 when her daughter was born, in year 2013, initially told police the child had been the product of rape by 2 men in an alleyway, before later retracting the claim.
The baby was born on February 27, 2013 and the young mother placed it in a shoebox under her bed without confirming baby is dead or alive or knowing gender of baby.
On March 2, 2013 mother of Girl noticed a bad smell from her bedroom and asked her to clean her room, and later she discovered a dead body of new born in shoe box both mother and daughter put the body of newborn in boot of car and after 3 days took shoe box to A&E at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley
Prosecutors are unable to find whether the baby was born alive or dead, because of this decided not to bring criminal charges against young girl.
Young girl claimed in application in High Court, she is in fear that she might be killed or she might be taken to Pakistan to get married to any man from back home as a punishment for bringing shame to family. The girl is moved away from Keighley to another town as she is scared form her family members. She also claimed she had received abusive text messages threatening to kill her.
Young girls solicitors applied for an anonymity order for girl in Bradford Coroner’s Court on August 2014 but it was rejected in September 2015.
The High Court judges wrote in their ruling: “The claimant has never produced any corroborating evidence of the abusive text messages and has not identified the senders.”
An anonymity order remains in place but will lapse on 12 May unless the woman takes her appeal to the Supreme Court.
Original News Source: Yorkshire Post