Georgetown: Police have launched a hunt for a woman of East Indian descent who abandoned her dead newborn on the Berbice Car Park yesterday afternoon.
The woman fled the park in a special hire car seconds after handing the fetus in a black plastic bag to a tout.
By the time the police began tracking the woman down, she had already disembarked from the taxi and disappeared at the Berbice River Bridge, telling the driver that she was heading to Springlands.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicate that the woman, who appeared to be in her late twenties, arrived on the park around 16:00hrs with a black bag in her hand and immediately solicited the assistance of a tout to secure a car to take her to Berbice.
“She wanted a special so she did not have to wait on the park…She looked normal so nobody suspected anything,” a Berbice Bus Park regular told this newspaper.
Seconds after boarding the taxi, the woman handed the bag she was carrying to the tout, with instructions to throw it away.
According to a source, the tout upon feeling the weight of the bag, became suspicious.
“He said that as soon as he took the bag, his skin start to grow and that is how he open it,” the source said.
To his horror, the tout discovered that the bag he was given to throw away actually contained a male fetus about five months old.
He immediately dropped the bag and raised an alarm.
The police were informed but by the time they began putting systems in place such as an ‘all station’ message to intercept the car the woman was travelling in, it was too late.
As news of the discovery spread, scores of onlookers gathered at the scene to get a glimpse of the fetus.
Some even followed it to the Stabroek Market Outpost where it was taken by police before it was finally removed by undertakers.
“Some people cruel. She coulda give away de baby, you know how much people want a child”, were some of the remarks that were overheard at the scene where the fetus was discovered.
Investigators believe that the woman delivered the baby sometime yesterday.
They will be checking at all city hospitals to ascertain if she was treated there.
