Whilst investigating officers still have no leads in finding the mother of the newborn baby girl whose body was found at the Beetham Landfill last week, forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov says samples will now be taken for DNA testing/matching.
In a telephone conversation with the T&T Guardian, Alexandrov said in such a case like this the saved samples would be kept indefinitely.
“So ten years from now if a woman shows up and says ‘I killed my child’ we would have the samples to look back on and match the DNA.
“In this case, I would be saving samples of blood, pieces of the liver and other internal organs, also bone marrow tissue, which is perfect to match for DNA,” Alexandrov said.
With regards to the baby’s body, which is still at the Forensic Science Centre, Alexandrov said if nobody comes to claim the body the State will have to foot the bill for burial.
On Tuesday around 5.30 am, scavengers at the dump found the baby’s body in a garbage bag.
The baby was said to be full term after a nine-month pregnancy.
During his autopsy, Alexandrov found there were no abnormalities, the baby was fully developed and the umbilical cord was cut.
The death certificate recorded that the baby died as a result of the abandonment of a mature naturally born viable infant in a hostile environment.
Investigations are continuing.