According to the indictment of provincial People’s Procuracy, at around 7 pm on November 25, 2017, while carrying her grandson, she dropped him onto the floor and then she accidentally fell onto him.
Pham Thi Xuan at the court
She did not take him to hospital as she thought that he was already dead. She then tried to hide the incident by covering him with a blanket then took him to the road which is some 30 metres from the house. After that, she put him into a green plastic bag and then threw the body onto a nearby lawn.
Returning home, she invented the story that the boy was kidnapped by a woman and a man who had attacked her with anaesthetic and taken the baby away on their motorbike.
A day later, she put the plastic bag with the boy body inside into a jute bag from her house and then tied it again. She then covered the bag with rubbish.
The baby's body was found two days later at a dump 10 kilometres from her home by a scrap metal collector.
The case was brought to light thanks to the jute bag which had the name and phone number of the boy's father.