Jurors hear police interviews with a woman accused of killing her newborn baby at her parent's home in 2019.
Miss Mayo is accused of fracturing her son's skull before putting him in a bin bagA teenage mother accused of murdering her newborn son "cuddled him goodbye, kissed him on the forehead" then placed him in a bag, jurors have been told.
She allegedly concealed her pregnancy and the birth of her son, which she managed alone at the family home on 23 March, the court has been told.In her interviews with police which were read in court on Thursday, Miss Mayo claimed two cotton wool balls that were found in his throat were due to her panicking because Stanley "had all this blood coming out of his mouth", and she started "cleaning it up".
She gave birth at about 21:30 GMT in a downstairs sitting room after her parents had gone to bed after suffering cramps for 48 hours beforehand. She said she then got a black bag and put him inside, telling police "I don't know why I just wanted it all to be over with".
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