The Associated Press A Tokyo policewoman was arrested for allegedly hiding her dead newborn baby inside a refrigerator at the police single women's dormitory, police said Thursday.
Miho Watanabe, 27, a traffic cop, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of abandoning a corpse, a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
Watanabe secretly gave birth to a boy inside her dorm room in central Tokyo on Sunday. The baby died two days later and she wrapped it inside a towel and stored it inside the refrigerator shared by her colleagues.
The alleged crime surfaced by accident. A fire detector at the dorm went off in a false alarm Sunday afternoon, prompting a dorm manager to conduct building inspections, during which he found the mysterious lump wrapped in a towel.