Forty eight

Despite the advice by the medical team, Damian Cross' mother refused to sign the consent form for an operation. That way, Anna Brook was in labor for a whole day until she had no more strength. When the doctors saw that the woman in the labor ward could die if nothing was done, they called Damian's mother.

When she came, she was asked who she was exactly to Anna Brook and she said her mother in law. She was then warned that if Anna Brook dies in that labor ro, she would be arrested for murder.

Only then did Mrs Cross reluctantly agree to sign the consent form. But alas, it was too late. The baby had stilled born.

When the operation was done and Anna was wheeled into the postnatal ward, Damian's mother was raining curses on her. She had made them spend so much only to be told the child was dead. Why didn't she die along with her miserable child and end it there.

Anna was weak and unable to move her body, but all her mother inlaw said, she heard and tears dropped from her eyes