A man has been arrested after he allegedly told police he poisoned his wife and, in doing so, killed his own baby who drank her breast milk.
After the breakdown of their marriage, the unnamed man was supposed to move out of the home he shared with Josieli Lopes, 36, in Itapema, Brazil.
However, the baby also consumed a fatal dose of the unspecified poison when it drank its mother’s breast milk.However, the man allegedly drove the dying pair to a remote jungle in Rio dos Caedros, in southern Brazil, where he buried their bodies.
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