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Investigators still trying to ID mother

Jun 17, 2010 News

A week has passed and investigators are no closer to identifying the mother of the baby whose body, with its throat slit, was discovered in the Cowan Street Canal.
They are still awaiting a post mortem examination which will determine whether they are dealing with a case of murder. One investigator has indicated that although there appears to be a laceration to the throat, the pathologist will have to determine if the wound was inflicted by another person or whether it occurred as a result of the body being in the water for some period.
Detectives could not say how long the body was in the canal and they hope that the post mortem examination will provide them with some answers.
The baby’s body was discovered early last week floating in the canal by a group of school children who subsequently raised an alarm.
The child’s body was wrapped in a blanket at the time of the discovery.
Although police in a press release stated that the child, a male, might be about one year old, eyewitnesses suggested that he could not have been older than a day old since the umbilical cord was still attached to the body.
“Whoever do that really cruel,” an onlooker remarked at the scene.
Investigators believe that whoever dumped the body had hoped for it to be washed into the Demerara River when the Kingston koker was opened.
A sluice attendant in the area had told this newspaper that he was observing some children pelting at fishes in the canal near the koker after which he heard one of them talking about a foot in the water.
“The two foot been peeping out from the thing that it wrap up in and is one ah dem children notice it,” the sluice attendant recalled.
He said that he became curious and using a long stick he pulled the object out of the water and to everyone’s shock, the baby’s body was wrapped inside.
The police were subsequently summoned.

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