Children find newborn in canal with throat slit

An undertaker assist a detective in removing the newborn’s remains from the Cowan Street canal.

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.