At Rose Hall, Berbice…
– baby girl found abandoned, blood flowing from her umbilical cord, as ants crawled on her naked body
THE baby girl who was found abandoned, with blood flowing from her umbilical cord, as ants crawled on her naked body, at Rose Hall Swamp area on the Corentyne Coast, has been re-united with her mother.
A Health Care provider told this newspaper that following the child’s admission to the New Amsterdam Hospital last Monday, contact was subsequently made with her mother, who had left the Ancient County for Georgetown.
She was thereafter admitted to the gynecological ward at the health institution two days later, and was discharged, along with the newborn infant, last Friday.
Meanwhile, Chandrani Mayers, called Julie, a goat herder, of Fourth Street, Swamp Section, Rose Hall, has missed two of her pregnant doe [female goats] on August 15, last.
Consequently, she left her home in search of the animals, but was unsuccessful in her search.
The following morning, at 06:15 h, she resumed her search, when the sound of a newborn animal filled her ear. Thinking at first it was the cries of a puppy, Julie moved towards the sound. However, on drawing near to the clump of bushes, which was about 33 meters from her home, Mayers observed the uplifted limbs of a crying infant.
A closer look revealed that the baby was naked, the umbilical cord was bleeding, whilst the body was covered with ants.
The goat herder, a mother of two teenage girls, opined that the infant was birthed about two to three hours earlier.
“On seeing the baby, I called out to my neighbours, but at first they were reluctant to come outside. When they came, they saw the child and they told me to go to make a report at the police station [ Rose Hall Police Outpost]. Policeman George [one name given] was on duty and he took the report, and rushed to the scene, taking off his shirt, which he used to wrap the newborn girl,” the woman related to the Chronicle.
Mayers, who had submitted a statement to the police, said the baby was initially taken to Port Mourant Public Hospital, but was subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where she was placed in an incubator.
This newspaper was told that the infant’s mother, Chelsea [only name given], had recently moved into the Rose Hall Community, and may have experienced some difficulties forcing her to abandon her third child.