Kochi : The tragic victim to cruelty of her grandmother’s paramour, one-and-a-half-year-old Norah Maria, was laid to rest at St. Francis Xavier Forane Church cemetery on Thursday. The funeral was held after the child’s mother arrived from her workplace overseas. The older child was handed into the mother's care by relatives.
The horrendous crime took place on Tuesday around 2 pm. The deceased child Norah is daughter of Sajeev, a Angamaly native and Diksi. Diksi has two children and works abroad. Sajeev’s mother Sipsi(44) looked after the children in her absence.
Sipsi(44) was romantically involved with John Benoy(26). She checked into a lodge in Kaloor along with the two kids on Tuesday. John arrived there shortly after and the couple quarreled noisily and John left. Sipsi too left for outdoors soon. That’s when John sneaked into the room and held the child upside down into the bucket of water in the bathroom till life ebbed from the tender body. Sipsi returned later and rushed the child to the hospital. The child was already dead and though Sipsi claimed the child choked on milk, the doctors were suspicious and alerted the police.
John was arrested and he confessed to the crime which, according to Sipsi, was in revenge of her seeking to keep him away for which she had lodged harassment complaint to police earlier.
Meanwhile, according to police, t John is a sadistic killer who routinely enj oys drowning animals to death.
