A special team from the Police for Children and Adolescents transferred this Thursday morning the newborn baby body which was found by workers sanitary landfill of La Cejalocated in the village of El Tambo.
Childhood and Adolescence officials took the child’s body to the headquarters of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Medellínlocated in the Caribbean neighborhood, north of the city.
It will be in this place where the experts will try to clarify the death of the baby, who at the time of the discovery still had the umbilical cord.
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According to an expert doctor consulted by MiOriente, the child would have been thrown away hours after birthaccording to the analysis that can be made of a photograph taken when it was found in the landfill.
“What can be seen is that it is a newborn that already has some very well-defined features that correspond to a full-term baby. (ie, 37 weeks, nine months of gestation completed); The skull, the spinal axis, its extremities, its auricle and its hands are already highly developed, and this probably indicates that the child was born and after the umbilical cord was cut, they threw it away”, explained the doctor.
In addition, he explained that normally when a abortion in early gestations, the fetus is delivered in fragments.
From the Mayor’s Office of La Ceja they enabled the hotline 604 553 1313 for anyone who has information about the case.