A Russian woman has been found guilty of killing her newborn baby and keeping its body for five years in a freezer
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A court in Arkhangelsk in northern Russia established that 37-year-old Lyudmila Smirnova gave birth to a baby girl at her home in January 2007 and then proceeded to smother it with a cloth.
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She then put the body into deepfreeze, keeping it there until Dec 29, 2011, when it was pulled out by her male companion, who thought it was meat.
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Smirnova admitted her guilt.
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The court took into account the fact that she has two other children and gave her a 22-month suspended sentence.
