Woman Asked By Fellow Parishioner To Freeze A Bag Of Meat Horrified To Discover A Year Later That It Contained A Dead Baby

A housewife who was asked to freeze a bag of meat for a woman she had met at her local church was horrified a year later when she found out it contained the body of a dead baby.

Susy Costa, 56, had lost direct contact with the young woman from her local church who had asked her to store the bag of meat, only occasionally talking to her via WhatsApp.

She had reportedly asked the younger woman if she could throw out the meat. However, the woman said she still wanted it and would collect it at some point from the property in the city of Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Simonia Salgueiro, sister of the housewife Susy Costa, 56, who found a baby’s body while cleaning the refrigerator in a bag that the mother asked her to keep claiming it was meat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 30th November. (Newsflash)

However, when the housewife looked inside the bag when she was defrosting the freezer on Tuesday night, 30th November, she was horrified to see a human foot and called the police immediately.

She told the cops that the person who had asked her to store it was a woman she used to see from time to time named Grazi, surname not known, and who, on one of the last occasions they met, had handed her a wrapped-up piece of meat and asked her to keep it in her freezer for her.

Susy’s sister, cleaning maid Simonia Salgueiro, told the news portal G1: “She said ‘keep this meat for me, I’ll give it to someone’.

Simonia Salgueiro, sister of the housewife Susy Costa, 56, who found a baby’s body while cleaning the refrigerator in a bag that the mother asked her to keep claiming it was meat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 30th November. (Newsflash)

“My sister said she would keep it, and after that, she disappeared. They only kept in touch through WhatsApp.

“My sister said she was going to throw the meat outside, but she wouldn’t allow it, telling her she would come to fetch it.”

The only other thing Susy knew about the young woman was that she was apparently pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby and had tried to disguise her pregnant belly using a belt.

The area where Susy Costa, 56, found a baby’s body while cleaning the refrigerator in a bag that the mother asked her to keep claiming it was meat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 30th November. (Newsflash)

It is believed that the baby in the bag was the woman’s newborn, which she had wrapped up in plastic bags before handing it to the housewife, telling her it was ‘meat’ and asking her to keep it in her freezer, according to G1.

Police who were called later confirmed that the body belonged to a baby girl. It was then taken to the coroner’s office for a post-mortem.

There has been no update on the whereabouts of the woman who had asked the housewife not to throw out the meat.

Police station investigating housewife Susy Costa, 56, who found a baby’s body while cleaning the refrigerator in a bag that the mother asked her to keep claiming it was meat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 30th November. (Newsflash)

The police have registered the case as ‘concealment of a corpse’ and will now investigate whether other crimes, such as forced abortion or murder, took place.

The crime of concealment of a corpse carries a punishment of one to three years in prison.

The investigation is ongoing.

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