A mother has been jailed after admitting she injected her baby girl with bleach and liquid soap and cut her skin with razors.

She said she did it because she did not love the baby, who was just one month old when she was first injected until she bled.

Prosecutors in Istanbul, Turkey, said the mother had twice been investigated by police but was released both times before she admitted what she had been doing.

The little girl is now being looked after by her father and her condition is said to be improving (Picture: AsiaWire)

The mother, named only as Elif K, handed herself into police where she told officers she had been trying to slowly kill her daughter, Eylul Miray, since birth.




‘I couldn’t love my daughter, I couldn’t warm towards her. I decided to torture her,’ a court in Istanbul heard.

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‘Since she was one-month-old I injected bleach and liquid soap into her ears, nose and belly button, until she started bleeding.

‘Then I took her to the hospital for treatment.

‘When they let her back home, I continued torturing her. I was injecting her with bleach and soap as well as cutting her with a razor in her head, eyes, legs, arms and chest.

‘When she was at the hospital, I injected the liquid soap from the hospital into her veins.

‘I also injected bleach at home into her veins.’

The mother handed herself into police when her baby was admitted to hospital a third time (Picture: AsiaWire)

Elif K, who lived with her husband Eray and their three children, first came under suspicion when baby Eylul, the youngest, kept falling ill.

Her dad took her to a doctor after he noticed she had bruises all over her body and had started bleeding from her ears and belly button.

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When her condition deteriorated, the infant was rushed to Istanbul University Medicine Faculty Hospital where she was diagnosed with a fractured skull.

While there, concerned doctors contacted police who launched an investigation.

Elif K was arrested and questioned but initially released after protesting her innocence.

She was questioned again when the baby was admitted to hospital a second time in August last year.

The mother said she injected her daughter with bleach and liquid soap (Picture: AsiaWire)

When the baby was treated a third time, at the Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Hospital, doctors refused to allow the mother access to her child and the baby began to recover.

As suspicions about her increased, Elif K walked into a police station to hand herself in, making a full confession, saying her conscience had finally got the better of her.

She was found guilty of torturing her baby in court this week.

The mother was remanded in custody until a further hearing to determine her sentence.

The baby is now living in the care of her father and is reportedly starting to regain her health.

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