By Roksana Panashchuk For Mailonline
Published: 10:54 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 10:54 GMT, 20 March 2019
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A Ukrainian woman allegedly cut her three-week-old daughter’s throat in a jealous rage because she believed her husband loved the baby more than her.
The 21-year-old mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, killed her child when her husband left their apartment in the city of Rivne in north-western Ukraine’s Rivne Oblast region for a few minutes.
Police reports say the woman attacked her baby when her husband, 26, went out to throw away some rubbish.
Arrested: The 21-year-old woman allegedly murdered her three-week-old baby daughter as her husband, 26, left their apartment in Rivne in north-western Ukraine to take out the rubbish
When he returned to the apartment he saw that his wife’s hands were covered with blood.
The man rushed into the bedroom to check on his newborn daughter and saw her lying motionless in a pool of blood.
The shocked father called emergency services.
The man’s mother Maria Momot said: ‘He [her son] went out for a few minutes and she grabbed a kitchen knife and cut the child’s throat