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Mother guilty of dumping baby

A Samoan woman who secretly gave birth on an international flight then dumped the baby in a bathroom garbage bin was convicted yesterday of child abandonment and ordered deported from New Zealand.

Karolaine Maika, a 29-year-old seasonal worker, gave birth without anyone noticing in the bathroom of a Pacific Blue flight from her home country to Auckland, New Zealand, on March 19. Cleaners found the baby girl still alive after the flight landed.