Woman suspected of decapitating newborn baby and leaving her dismembered in bin
Details of the crime first emerged last week when detectives launched an urgent appeal to find the mother.
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Doctors confirmed the little girl was born alive and was just five days old when she was killed.
On Tuesday Civil Guard officers in Madrid arrested a woman. Reports on Tuesday afternoon said police were searching her house in the working-class neighbourhood of Vallecas.
The suspect, who has been taken into custody, has not been named but has been described locally as a married Ecuadorean woman with children.
The police operation to snare the person responsible for the crime was launched on December 12th when a recycling centre worker in the small town of Loeches near the Spanish capital found the baby's remains in several plastic bags.
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A specialist dog assisted cops in the investigations at the waste plant.
Tests revealed the little girl was born alive and decapitated with a knife before her body parts were stuffed into garbage bags.
Detectives were already working on the theory the newborn baby could have been of Latin American origin and her remains had reached the Loeches plant after being thrown into a container in the Vallecas neighbourhood close to the M-30 motorway.
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The Civil Guard, as part of Operation Natal, last week asked for the public's help in identifying a woman they estimated to be aged around 40 who had been pregnant during the last months of last year.
A police spokesman said at the time: 'From the investigations carried out so far, it has been possible to determine that the remains would correspond to a female baby and that she was born alive.
'There are indications that would point to her death being of a violent nature.
'We are seeking the public's help in clarifying this criminal act and asking anyone who could have any information of interest to contact us.'
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