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15-year-old watches YouTube videos, performs own delivery, kills baby
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A 15-year-old girl, an alleged victim of sexual exploitation, delivered a girl at her home in Nagpur city of Maharashtra after watching YouTube videos and killed the newborn, police said on Sunday. A police official said the girl was sexually exploited by a man she got acquainted with on social media.
"She hid her baby bump from her mother by telling her that she was having some health issues," the official said.
To maintain secrecy, the girl, a resident of Ambazari area, hit upon the idea of home delivery and started watching YouTube videos.
"On March 2, she gave birth to a girl at her home and immediately strangled the newborn to death. She hid the body in a box in her home," the official added.
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