Overview

• Civil Guard officers arrested a 40-year-old Ecuadorian-born woman in Vallecas in connection with the infant’s death.
• Investigators searched her Vallecas flat under Operation Natal to collect evidence ahead of formal charges.
• Operation Natal was launched after a recycling centre worker found the decapitated remains of a five-day-old girl in Loeches last December.
• DNA profiling and Dylan, a K-9 agent from the Central Cynological Service, helped trace the remains to rubbish bags dumped near the M-30 motorway.
• Tests confirmed the newborn was born alive and of Latin American origin, prompting a public appeal to identify a woman aged around 40 who was pregnant late last year.