/Courtesy of Yonhap News Agency

By Lee Han-soo

A woman has been arrested for abandoning her dead newborn baby in a motel bathroom.

According to police, the seven-month-pregnant kindergarten teacher, surnamed Nam, was pregnant to an American soldier, who now lives in the U.S.

Police said she and a friend visited a nightclub on Saturday.

There they met two U.S. soldiers, with whom they drank until 5 a.m., before checking into a motel.

Nam's water broke while she was having sexual intercourse with a soldier, according to a statement she gave to the police.

She told the soldier it was her period and asked him to buy her a sanitary pad.

After the soldier left, she gave birth, wrapped the baby in a towel and left the newborn in the bathroom.

She then had lunch with her friend and the soldiers.

A hotel maid found the dead baby.

Police arrested Nam and her companions at about 1:20 p.m. on Saturday.

She allegedly told police the baby was alive, but had died while she was rinsing off the blood.

But police suspect that the baby was suffocated, because of bruises and abrasions on its body.

Police have handed the body to the National Forensic Service.

Police have cleared and released the soldiers because the soldier who had sex with Nam was at a convenience store when the baby was born.