The Tribune

By NICO SCAVELLA

Tribune Staff Reporter

nscavella@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are still searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy found alive in bushes in southwestern New Providence on Friday with its umbilical cord still attached.

Chief Superintendent Kendal Strachan, acting officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit (CDU), told The Tribune that while the baby is currently listed in “very good condition,” police still do not have any information regarding the mother’s identity, and neither has anyone presented themselves to police concerning the matter.

Nonetheless, Chief Supt Strachan urged the mother of the child, as well as anyone who might know the child’s mother, to come forward so that police “can bring some understanding to this particular ordeal”.

According to police, the infant was found shortly after 7am on Friday by a “good Samaritan” in bushes off Carmichael Road. Area residents reportedly discovered the abandoned baby after they said they heard crying all night through the rain.

Police Superintendent Matthew Edgecombe, the officer-in-charge of the southwestern division, said officers responded to the scene through a dirt road off Golden Isles Road.

Upon their arrival they reportedly saw and spoke to a gentleman, who at the time was holding a newborn baby wrapped up in a towel in his hands. The baby, who police said was in good health at the time of its discovery, was subsequently taken to hospital.

Since then, however, police have been soliciting the public’s help in finding the child’s mother.

“We don’t have any information regarding anyone surfacing,” Chief Supt Strachan said yesterday. “The baby, last (time we) checked at the hospital, is listed in very good condition, but we do not have anyone currently.

“We do, however, still appeal to anybody with any information regarding the mother, who definitely needs medical care, or even if she is listening, to avail herself of an opportunity for some assistance.”

He added: “There is a clinic in the area, there is the southwestern police station in the area, and then there’s here at the Central Detective Unit. We really would like to see her and see if we can bring some understanding to this particular ordeal.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS.