Baby’s corpse found among rubbish

Story by ZACHERY PER
A new-born baby was wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped at a rubbish dump in Goroka town.
The baby had its umbilical chord clipped with diapers wrappers from the hospital, suggesting to police that the mother must have deliberately killed the
baby and dumped it among the garbage.
A senior medical officer at the Goroka hospital confirmed that the baby must have been left at the dump for over two days.
The hospital will assist police in identifying mo­thers who gave birth during the weekend up to Monday afternoon.
Mothers who lived around Lottery Park expressed shock that the mother must have dumped the baby at the rubbish dump in the night during heavy rain.