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Gruesome - Police yet to question parents of baby found in suitcase
Residents claim toddler’s internal organs were removed
BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter [email protected]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
INTERNAL organs were reportedly removed from the two-year-old boy whose decomposing body was found last weekend in a suitcase in his parents’ rundown home off Chisholm Avenue in the Waltham Park area of Kingston.
Residents told the Observer yesterday that they suspected that the internal organs were removed to suppress the scent from the decaying body of the toddler, whom they called Joshua, and prevent unwanted attention from curious neighbours.
The house where the decomposing body of two-year-old Joshua was found.
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“For a long time we suspected that something was wrong, but we wondered if the child was dead, how was it that there was no smell coming from the premises,” said one resident.
Other residents said they had got word after the gruesome discovery that the father had previously sought advice from a mortician.
Rock salt, the residents further claimed, was placed around the body to prevent maggots from infesting the decaying remains that were hidden in the house for close to three months before the discovery.
However, the residents’ claims were not confirmed by the police.
“The police cannot confirm those reports, but what we can say is that a pathologist report has since disclosed that the... boy died from natural causes,” said Delroy Hewitt, the senior superintendent in charge of the St Andrew South Police Division.
Up to late yesterday, the mother, a 30-year-old Canadian resident, and the child’s father, a Jamaican who at one point immigrated to Canada, were still not questioned by investigators in relation to the discovery. It was not clear yesterday if they would be charged, and if so, for what offence.
Residents claimed that the child who was home delivered was never registered or immunised.
The discovery of the body on Sunday drew scores of curious residents to the dilapidated house. According to neighbours, they have been inquiring of the child’s whereabouts from late last year, but were not given any satisfactory answer.
Yesterday, residents said that the child could have been saved had the police taken the appropriate action earlier last year.
“From last year the police went to the location, and based on the conditions at the place the police should have started to ask questions,” said one woman.
A visit by the Observer to the rundown house where the couple lived with their son told a horrid tale of poverty. The house was sparsely furnished, in need of repairs, and old curtains hung from broken windows.
“Most of the furniture dem sell out of the place. Sometime the [mother] ask me for money. The last time me give her $300 she look like she wanted to tell me something when me ask her about the baby,” said a female neighbour.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Police allege that the woman has children in Canada who have been previously taken into State care.</span>
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Grue...e#ixzz1k8Cgv3hH
Residents claim toddler’s internal organs were removed
BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter [email protected]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
INTERNAL organs were reportedly removed from the two-year-old boy whose decomposing body was found last weekend in a suitcase in his parents’ rundown home off Chisholm Avenue in the Waltham Park area of Kingston.
Residents told the Observer yesterday that they suspected that the internal organs were removed to suppress the scent from the decaying body of the toddler, whom they called Joshua, and prevent unwanted attention from curious neighbours.
The house where the decomposing body of two-year-old Joshua was found.
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“For a long time we suspected that something was wrong, but we wondered if the child was dead, how was it that there was no smell coming from the premises,” said one resident.
Other residents said they had got word after the gruesome discovery that the father had previously sought advice from a mortician.
Rock salt, the residents further claimed, was placed around the body to prevent maggots from infesting the decaying remains that were hidden in the house for close to three months before the discovery.
However, the residents’ claims were not confirmed by the police.
“The police cannot confirm those reports, but what we can say is that a pathologist report has since disclosed that the... boy died from natural causes,” said Delroy Hewitt, the senior superintendent in charge of the St Andrew South Police Division.
Up to late yesterday, the mother, a 30-year-old Canadian resident, and the child’s father, a Jamaican who at one point immigrated to Canada, were still not questioned by investigators in relation to the discovery. It was not clear yesterday if they would be charged, and if so, for what offence.
Residents claimed that the child who was home delivered was never registered or immunised.
The discovery of the body on Sunday drew scores of curious residents to the dilapidated house. According to neighbours, they have been inquiring of the child’s whereabouts from late last year, but were not given any satisfactory answer.
Yesterday, residents said that the child could have been saved had the police taken the appropriate action earlier last year.
“From last year the police went to the location, and based on the conditions at the place the police should have started to ask questions,” said one woman.
A visit by the Observer to the rundown house where the couple lived with their son told a horrid tale of poverty. The house was sparsely furnished, in need of repairs, and old curtains hung from broken windows.
“Most of the furniture dem sell out of the place. Sometime the [mother] ask me for money. The last time me give her $300 she look like she wanted to tell me something when me ask her about the baby,” said a female neighbour.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Police allege that the woman has children in Canada who have been previously taken into State care.</span>
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Grue...e#ixzz1k8Cgv3hH
baby Angelica parents
A special Canada ting dat?? 
poor baby RIP 
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