BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - A human foetus, estimated to be about three months, was discovered early this morning (Sept. 25) on Southwell Street, Newtown in the vicinity of the Newtown Health Centre and the Newtown Community Centre.
SKNVibes arrived on the scene shortly after the dead baby was found at about 8: 30 am and observed a group of people gathered on the sidewalk, closer to the eastern end of the concrete fence of the Health Centre, which is adjacent to the Community Centre.
Just before 11:00 a.m., District Medical Officer Dr. Mervyn Laws visited the scene and confirmed that it was indeed a human foetus.
Members of the Criminal Investigation Department were also at the scene conducting investigations.
Members of the Crime Scene Unit placed the foetus inside a small tube, which contained an unnamed liquid, and took it away from the scene.
Mother of six and grandmother of five, Jennifer Lee of Taylor’s Village was overcome with grief as she openly wept.
She was in the area to accompany her teenage son to the Health Centre.
Lee took time off to speak with this media house, as she claimed to have witnessed the foetus when it was alive.
“Ah saw it moving and that’s why I was crying! I felt it…she could ah bring it and give it to me. I feel it for true because me is a mother. I came over and a see it moving. I felt bad and I started to cry because I is a mother and I got me children dem…(the mother) coulda bring it give me.”
SKNVibes also spoke with the cleaner of the Community Centre, Velma Mathew, who is a mother of three with two grandchildren.
Matthew explained that she started her job as a cleaner of the Community Centre just yesterday (Sept. 24).
“Ah see de crowd, but me no do nothing. I went in go do me work. When me come back out me see de eye dem like de child ah watch yo. They say de child been a move first. Boy da dere run tru me boy! A mother who got children must feel it! Not because me no bring water to me eye, but me feel it.”
“That child coulda come the next Prime Minister. Who knows?” was one of the many sentiments expressed by some people gathered at the scene this morning.
Interestingly, an individual, who is responsible for cleaning that street early in the morning, was unaware of the foetus’ presence and had only known of it after enquiring why was there a crowd gathered by the Health Centre.
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