Marzena Kowalski, from Poland, told a court she had kept the pregnancy secret as she had been worried her boss would sack her if he found out
A woman drowned her newborn baby in a toilet - because she was worried she would lose her job if her boss found out.
Nitrogen plant worker Marzena Kowalski, 30, from Sniadowko, in south-eastern Poland, gave birth to the child in her parents' bathroom.
She told them she had suffered a miscarriage, but an autopsy revealed the baby had died from drowning, and after being quizzed by police she confessed.
Appearing in court this week, Kowalski told the judge she had kept the pregnancy secret because she had been worried that her boss would sack her if he found out.
And she admitted killing the newborn out of fear that he would fire her because she'd had a baby.
She told the court: "I was afraid that my employer would not extend my contract and that I would not be able to find work if I had a small child."
She then told the court that she was again three months pregnant and that she bitterly regretted what she had done.
Stunned co-worker Michal Kowalczyk, 27, said: "We often saw her walking around, chatting and laughing as normal.
"She didn’t look pregnant and didn’t let on that she was.
"When we found out what she had done we were completely shocked.
"It just seems so out of character."
The trial continues.
