The body of a three-week-old baby was fished out of a canal at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice (WCB) around midday yesterday after his 30-year-old mother threw him in alive around 6 am.
The woman, Alexis Felix has confessed to drowning her three-week-old son Alvin Felix and has been taken into custody at the Fort Wellington Police Station.
The baby’s father, Colin Griffith, 52, of Golden Fleece, WCB told Stabroek News yesterday that he was at Washington, WCB when he received a call from Felix’s neighbour who told him that Felix had thrown the baby in the canal.
He said the neighbour told him that the mother went to the direct spot in the canal where the child was and pulled him out.
He said he went to the Weldaad Police Station and saw the mother with the baby’s body wrapped up “and when I looked at the baby he looked like he dead…”
According to Griffith, who works as a security guard with a rice farmer at Weldaad, he has been involved with the woman for almost one year. He said he would visit the baby daily and would also take milk for the mother as she was breastfeeding the baby.
He said Felix, who has two other children, aged nine and three years old, never indicated to him that she did not want the baby. The nine-year-old child lives with Felix’s mother. The three-year-old, reports said, she had left on the father’s steps.
According to reports, the woman has “nerve problems” and had been a patient at the National Psychiatric Hospital in 2002.
A post-mortem would be performed on the baby today and Griffith said the remains would be buried tomorrow.