Woman deceived fiance with pregnancy, dead doll baby just to keep him

A man who was deceived by his fiancee found a plastic DOLL inside his 'dead baby's' coffin after his girlfriend lied about the child's existence.

Melvin Mendoza discovered the newborn baby he was grieving for had never even existed after he and his friends dug up the tiny white coffin.

His partner, Rosa Castellanos Diaz, had reportedly spent nine months pretending to be pregnant with twins before 'giving birth' to them.

After fooling her family into believing she had delivered the infants, she feigned the death of one of them and staged a burial, it is alleged.

She claimed she had left the other twin being cared for in hospital.

The funeral took place at her local graveyard in El Coyolar, Honduras.

 

Distraught family and friends took turns to carry the 'deceased twin's' coffin before bidding an emotional farewell to them.

But the next day, Melvin's pals reportedly began to doubt Rosa's story and decided to return to the graveyard to dig up the coffin with him.

When they did, they found a plastic doll dressed up as a baby inside.

Shocking footage, shared on Twitter by Noticieros Hoy Mismo, shows the doll lying inside the open coffin by the side of the exhumed grave.

A number of men can be seen walking around at the scene, with one in a baseball cap filmed picking up the box and moving it around.

Another man shines a torch on the doll. It is claimed Rosa had kept up the charade of being pregnant for the whole nine months, convincing friends and relatives she was expecting.

She even announced she was expecting twins after an 'ultrasound scan'.

It is reported that her actions were a bizarre attempt to keep her 'wayward' partner by her side, although this has not been confirmed.

Last Friday morning, Rosa left her village home and took a bus the Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa, claiming she was heading for the city's Escuela Hospital to give birth to her babies.

That night, she reportedly called Melvin, a member of the Honduran Armed Forces, to tell him the sad news that one of the twins had died while being delivered.

As is custom, the grief-stricken father and his relatives put on a wake and awaited the arrival of his partner and the 'dead child'.

Rosa reportedly arrived at noon the next day, carrying the coffin.

However, she told loved ones they could not see the 'baby' as the hospital had sealed the box and prohibited her from opening it.

The wake continued through the afternoon, with coffee, bread and other snacks served for friends and family who had come to pay their respects.

Later that afternoon, the baby's funeral possession left from the house towards the cemetery, before a short ceremony took place.

Distressed Melvin then had to be supported by friends as he lowered the coffin into the ground and buried it, according to reports.

However, following the funeral, a number of his friends expressed fears that Rosa had invented the story to convince him not to leave her.

They exhumed the coffin, accompanied by Melvin, to find out the truth.

One, Ismael Mejia, told Honduras' El Heraldo newspaper: "The whole thing didn't seem right. So in the night we went to the cemetery to dig it up. When we pulled out the box, to our surprise what we found inside was a doll, dressed up as if it were a child.

We took the coffin to the police so they could see that we didn't take the child out of the box and replace it with a doll.

After discovering the alleged trick, Melvin has however decided not to press charges against Rosa.