Woman jailed for abandoning baby in lake

A woman was convicted of attempted homicide and sentenced to eight years and four months in prison today for putting her baby in a plastic bag and setting her afloat in a Brazilian lake a year ago.

Simone Cassiano da Silva, 30, was found guilty by a jury in south-eastern Minas Gerais state of abandoning her two-month-old baby in the Pampulha Lagoon in Belo Horizonte, 500km (300 miles) north-east of Sao Paulo.