Shane Su­perville

A rou­tine garbage col­lec­tion ear­ly on Wednes­day morn­ing re­sult­ed in a gris­ly dis­cov­ery as in Mar­aval.

Po­lice said garbage men from the Amal­ga­mat­ed San­i­ta­tion Ser­vices were col­lect­ing garbage on Sad­dle Road, at the cor­ner of Bowen Street, at around 6 am when they found a garbage bag con­tain­ing the body of a ba­by girl.

Mar­aval po­lice were called in with a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who de­clared the child dead.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion I are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the child ap­peared to be a new­born with pla­cen­ta still in the bag.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the neigh­bour­hood on Wednes­day morn­ing af­ter the child's body was re­moved and spoke with res­i­dents who said the com­mu­ni­ty was shak­en and un­nerved by the dis­cov­ery.

Long­time Mar­aval res­i­dent and shop­keep­er, Neil Ro­driguez, told Guardian Me­dia that in his years liv­ing in the neigh­bour­hood he nev­er heard such about some­thing as grim hap­pen­ing.

"It's not a nice thing at all.

"I'm a fa­ther my­self and see­ing some­thing like this re­al­ly hurts me."

An­oth­er res­i­dent who asked not to be named said the garbage bag was at the top of the pile which sug­gests that the body was dis­card­ed rel­a­tive­ly re­cent­ly.