Children find newborn in canal with throat slit

Police are investigating what looks very much like the murder of a newborn boy whose partly decomposed body with its throat slashed was fished out of the Cowan Street Canal in Kingston, around midday yesterday.
The gruesome discovery was made by a group of school children who subsequently raised an alarm.
Investigators are treating the situation as a murder since initial evidence suggests that the child was killed, then wrapped in a blanket and disposed of near the Kingston koker.
From all appearances the baby could not be older than a day, since according to eyewitnesses, the umbilical cord was still attached.
However, the police in a press release stated that at about 12:20 hours yesterday the decomposing body of an unidentified male child, about one year old, was found floating in the Kingston Canal, with a wound to his throat.
“Whoever do that really cruel,” an onlooker remarked at the scene.
A sluice attendant in the area told this newspaper that he was observing some children pelting at fish in the canal near the koker after which he heard one of them referring to 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 summoned and they have launched an extensive investigation.
The police are asking anyone with information that may lead to the identification of the child to contact them on telephone numbers 225-6411, 226-7065, 225-6941, 225-3052, 225-2227, 911 or the nearest police station.

Friday, June 11, 2010