A mother slashed her five-day-old daughter to death because she didn’t want her baby

News24xx.com - A mother slashed her five-day-old daughter to death because she didn’t want her baby.  Hiralbahen Bhavsar, 29, was arrested in Little Ferry, New Jersey on Thursday after authorities say she sliced the infant’s throat and arm with a knife. 

She called police to her home claiming she had chest pains and told responding officers that her husband, Jaymin, was trying to kill her in their Liberty Street apartment.  Jaymin was handcuffed, but other family members who were in the home began screaming, "No, no, not him,"

Police wrote, "At this time, Hiralbahen exited a rear bedroom and began stating, “No, no not him. I did it. I killed my baby.”‘ Officers then found the lifeless baby in the bedroom with cuts to her arm and neck. Police questioned Hiralbahen, who told them she didn’t want her baby and she killed the child.

Jaymin told investigators that his family was eating dinner when the baby began crying, so his wife took the baby into the rear bedroom. He said Hiralbahen then left the room without the infant, grabbed an item from the kitchen, then returned to the bedroom and locked the door. Just hours before the stabbing, She posted a photo of herself with the child and her husband.

Neighbor Aradhana Thakur said that she did not know whether the mother was struggling with postpartum depression, and claimed Hiralbahen seemed normal.

Hiralbahen Bhavsar has been charged with first-degree murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

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