The corpse of what was suspected to be a newborn baby, believed to have died after delivery was yesterday afternoon discovered buried in a small grave under a La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Dem-erara (ECD) premises and police have arrested two persons.
Police officials in ‘C’ Division informed Stab-roek News that a man had rented his Lot 8 Cherry Field, LBI house to a family and on Tuesday he managed to remove them with the help of a bailiff.
Stabroek News was told that the man returned to the property yesterday to do some renovation works and while digging a section of the yard he saw what appeared to be a small grave.
Upon inquiring from neighbours, he was told that a young girl who had lived there had been pregnant and it was suspected that she had given birth but the baby had died and was possibly buried in the yard. Armed with this information, the men made a report to the police.
This newspaper was reliably informed that around 1.30 pm yesterday, ranks went to the area where they found a black cloth in which blood and body parts were wrapped. The body parts appeared to be of a newborn baby, a police rank said.
Police received no reports of a baby dying at that address. The protocol is that following any death at a house, the police ought to be notified so that foul play can be ruled out.
They later arrested the woman to whom it is suspected the baby belongs and her mother and they are currently in police custody assisting with investigations.
When Stabroek News visited the LBI community yesterday afternoon residents refused to comment on the incident and belongings that were removed from the house were packed on the roadway covered with tarpaulin.
Efforts to contact family members of the suspects proved futile.
