Newborn baby dies after mother puts her in freezer

A mother who believed her new-born baby girl had died has confessed to putting her in a freezer, but an autopsy showed the child was still alive at the time.

Police in the town of Horb, in south-west Germany, say the young woman came to them on Sunday and said she had put the baby in the freezer three or four weeks ago.

The autopsy showed that the child was still alive when she was put in the freezer, police said.

The woman has been taken into custody as the case is investigated.