It looks like the Baby Lilly case is rapidly coming to closure. According to the BBC, Rachael Davies has admitted to being the mother and concealing the birth of Baby Lilly:

Baby Lily mother concealed birth

Rachael Davies admitted concealing a birth

A woman has admitted concealing the birth of her stillborn daughter whose body was found by a Warwickshire river.

Rachael Davies, 26, of Wharrage Road, Alcester, was arrested after police used DNA testing to link her to the child, nicknamed Lily by officers.

Stratford-on-Avon magistrates heard Lily was found near the River Alne last May. She had suffered a fractured skull and collarbone.

Davies will be sentenced at Warwick Crown Court at a later date.

The court heard Davies kept the baby’s body in her car overnight before dumping it, sometime between January and May last year.

Apparently the murder investigation was dropped, even though the baby sustained a skull fracture and a broken collarbone. However, I couldn’t find anything that detailed whether these injuries were post-mortem or not. According to David Everett, the prosecutor, “She said it showed no signs of life when it [sic] had been born.” From an earlier article describing Baby Lilly’s injuries (emphasis mine):

Det Ch Insp Adrian Pearson, of Warwickshire Police, said Lilly was found in a Mothercare bag. She was newly born and still had her umbilical cord attached.

Mr Pearson said: “Since the discovery of her body, we’ve been able to establish that she suffered significant and traumatic head injuries after she was born.

“We believe that she died very soon after birth, but that she didn’t sustain those injuries in the course of birth or in the course of pregnancy. They were inflicted on her very soon after she was born.”

OK… while I guess it’s possible that the injuries could have occurred post-mortem (say by banging against rocks and such in a river), I’d like to know the full explanation there. Personally, I don’t get how she can argue that she didn’t know she was pregnant, and then, giving birth to a stillborn baby, decided the best course of action was to dump the body. With her pajamas and an a bag from the place she worked. But apparently, that’s what happened.

As I said before, I don’t know if the justice system will be able to bring justice to this, only closure. For times like this, I can only hope that Ms. Davies actually does feel remorse and guilt for what she’s done, and that guilt in this case will administer its own justice, meted out fairly and appropriately. And I do hope that Baby Lilly was stillborn. It’s just too horrible to think what must have been done to her had she not.