A HOUSEMAID has confessed to killing her employers' baby girl because she wanted a holiday.

The Dubai maid, in her 20s, confessed to the crime and told cops she was upset after her employers denied her permission to take time off to visit her home country on holiday, reports Gulf News.

The baby girl’s parents returned home from work on Sunday to find their daughter dead in her cot.

“They thought that it was a natural death but relatives insisted they take their dead baby to the hospital,” police told the Gulf News. An autopsy revealed the girl had been suffocated to death.

The maid, who is in her 20s, used a wet rag to suffocate the sleeping baby, police believe.

Under questioning, the maid confessed to the crime. She said she was angry after the baby’s father denied her request for a holiday, because the baby’s mother had just started a new job and he couldn't get time off work.

The maid told police that she thought the baby’s death would allow her to take the holiday, cops say.



Originally published as Maid suffocated baby to get holiday