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A pregnant teenager was killed after a woman allegedly cut her unborn child out of her womb, according to local authorities.

In a press conference held in Brazil on Friday, March 14, Civil Police Chief Caio Albuquerque of the city of Cuiabá said that 16-year-old Emilly Azevedo Sena, who was nine months pregnant, had been missing since Wednesday, March 12. Her body was found buried in the backyard of a home in the Jardim Florianópolis neighborhood the following day, per Albuquerque. He stated that a woman has since been arrested for the crime.

Albuquerque said the woman admitted to having experienced a miscarriage six months prior, but claims she did not tell her husband or family about the miscarriage and continued to act as though she was pregnant, per local news outlet g1.