Abandoned Baby Neal


BABY NEAL at the Mount Hope Medical Sciences Complex yesterday.
Police are trying to find out who abandoned this boy.
Photo: DHANRAJ SIRJOO
Baby in bushes hungry for love
Sept 2000
By RAJENDRA SHEPHERD

THE abandoned baby in the bushes had probably been left for “more than 24 hours” before being discovered by a passing stranger. Police were yesterday still searching for clues as to the whereabouts of relatives of the baby who is now being called Neal Massy because of where he was found.

The child of African descent, thought to be between seven and nine months, was found by a stranger late on Friday night who heard his cries coming from dense shrubbery.

It was only when the man parted the reeds by the Neal and Massy Complex, on Lady Young Road, Morvant he saw the child abandoned in his pram.

Police said they got an anonymous call from a woman on Saturday night, saying the baby was called George.

Wearing just a blue jumper, the boy was dehydrated and was taken to Mount Hope Medical Complex where he is being cared for.

Hospital spokeswoman Deborah Jean-Baptiste Samuel said: “The baby was covered with bites from red ants and we speculate had been left in the bushes for more than 24 hours.

“He is being bottle-fed by nurses and is receiving what he needs most, which is love and attention.

“Nurses are acting as surrogate mothers in the hope of bringing him back to wholeness, but as is often the case with abandoned children could be doing so for months.”

Investigating officer Cpl Alexander added: “Officers are still searching the area for clues as to the mother’s whereabouts.

“Up till now we have no fresh leads but officers are working furiously to help find this baby boy’s home.
Baby George’s daddy shows up
Sept 06, 2000

THE father and grandmother of the abandoned baby in the bushes walked into Morvant police station yesterday afternoon and identified themselves after reading news reports about the child.

The boy, of African descent, believed to be seven to nine months old, was discovered when a stranger heard his cries late on Friday night.

Covered in bites from red ants and dehydrated, he was taken to Mount Hope Medical Complex where up to yesterday he was being cared for by nurses.

The nurses began calling him Neal Massy because he was found behind the Neal and Massy compound, Lady Young Road.

But an anonymous caller to the Morvant police had said the child was named George.

The man who said he was the baby’s father is from Second Caledonia, Morvant.

Cpl Erwin Alexander is investigating and the police were last night looking for the mother, following fresh leads provided by the father.

Unlike the last incident of child abandonment there were no callers asking to adopt this child, and no pledge of support for the family.

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