Woman has child on toilet - Then she presses the flush several times

Padua (Italy) - A newborn baby girl has been discovered dead in a toilet near a nightclub in northern Italy.

The police were able to arrest the woman. (symbolic image)
The police were able to arrest the woman. (symbolic image)  © Christoph Sator/dpa

According to the initial findings of the investigators, the baby died by drowning, as the public prosecutor's office announced. The baby's mother flushed the toilet several times after giving birth.

The 29-year-old Italian woman was arrested after the discovery and initially treated in a hospital.

According to Italian media reports, the woman worked in the nightclub in Piove di Sacco near the lagoon city of Venice and shared a small apartment in the same building with other colleagues from the club.

The body of the newborn was also found in the toilet of her apartment above the nightclub.

Witnesses told the police that the woman had only arrived in the town alone from the southern Italian region of Apulia in the summer to work in the nightclub. She had concealed her pregnancy from the owner of the club and her colleagues.