Cereal box baby killer: Depression, cultural pressures, trauma of childbirth plagued Teo, UK court finds


PETALING JAYA: Depression and the pressure of cultural background plagued Malaysian student Teo Jia Xin, who has been convicted of murdering her newborn baby girl by stuffing her into a cereal box.

This according to UK court documents which quoted Warwick Crown Court Judge Justice Tipples who said that Teo, 22, had recurrent depression and had been diagnosed with mild depressive disorder.

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