article_snippet.sent: A mother-of-five today avoided jail for suffocating her newborn baby daughter by stuffing toilet paper down her newborn baby daughter throat and hiding the infant's body in a suitcase.
article_snippet.sent: Until that point her newborn baby daughter had managed to keep her newborn baby daughter pregnancy secret from her newborn baby daughter family and gave birth to the child in the bath before killing her newborn baby daughter.
article_snippet.sent: her newborn baby daughter 'intended' to dispose of the tragic baby's body unnoticed, wrapping the tragic baby's body in a plastic bag and towels, but was prevented from doing so when paramedics arrived and whisked her newborn baby daughter off to hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier that evening her newborn baby daughter had complained to her newborn baby daughter family of a bad back but an ambulance was called when an ambulance was noticed her newborn baby daughter had wrapped her newborn baby daughter in blood-soaked towels.
article_snippet.sent: Before her newborn baby daughter left her newborn baby daughter sister's home in Knowle, Bristol, on September 12 last year, her newborn baby daughter was seen rearranging items in a suitcase and placed items on top.
article_snippet.sent: Three days later, her newborn baby daughter sister, Vilma, complained of a smell coming from Martins' bedroom and traced a smell coming from Martins' bedroom to a suitcase, Bristol Crown Court heard.
article_snippet.sent: When her newborn baby daughter opened a smell coming from Martins' bedroom her newborn baby daughter found towels soaked in blood and the body of a baby girl, which was between 35 and 36 weeks gestation.
article_snippet.sent: During the trial Adam Vaitilingam QC, prosecuting, told how Martins concealed her pregnancy from her friends and family and denied giving birth altogether, saying her simply had a period.
article_snippet.sent: Martins said: 'her placed the body of the baby in a suitcase, hidden from anyone. '
article_snippet.sent: No doubt, we suggest her intended to dispose of it but was prevented from doing so by the arrival of the paramedics, who took her off to hospital.'
article_snippet.sent: Following the discovery of the baby's body police were called and officers arrested Martins on September 15, the day after her was discharged from hospital.
article_snippet.sent: In police interviews on September 17 her claimed her was in the bath because her back and legs hurt when the baby suddenly came out.
article_snippet.sent: her said her caught the baby
article_snippet.sent: but the baby wasn't crying or moving.
article_snippet.sent: However, Dr Russell Delaney carried out a post mortem examination on September 17 and could not find any evidence that the baby stillborn.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Russell Delaney added Dr Russell Delaney believed that the wad of tissue paper, made up of around five pieces, was deliberately inserted, a court heard.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Vaitilingam added: 'a court is also Dr Russell Delaney's view that the obstruction of the baby's airways by this object would have caused the baby's airways death if the baby had been born alive.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The 33-year-old killed the infant by filling the infant mouth with toilet paper .
  