Hong Kong police charge two after baby dumped in bin

HONG KONG—Hong Kong police charged two foreign women, believed to be Indonesians, with murder on Saturday after they allegedly dumped a newborn baby girl in a garbage bin and left her to die.

Police identified the women only as expatriates aged 26 and 32. Reports in the local media earlier in the week quoted police as saying they were Indonesian domestic helpers.

“The 26-year-old woman, who gave birth to a baby on November 16, dumped the baby at a refuse collection point at Ying Lung Wai with the help of her 32-year-old female friend,” police said in a statement.

It said a search was still under way at an enormous landfill in West New Territories, but there appeared to be no hope the baby would be found alive.

The woman delivered the girl at a house and stuffed her into a plastic bag before throwing her in a rubbish bin with the help of the older friend, the South China Morning Post reported earlier, quoting police.

It said the friend told a third person, who alerted the mother’s employer, who in turn called the police.

The employer reportedly told police he was not aware the woman was pregnant.