Police continue to investigate baby girl's death
Detective Inspector Scott Beard, Auckland City Police
Police are continuing to work through their DNA
phase in a bid to find the
mother of a baby girl whose
body was found at a recycling facility in
Onehunga a
month ago.
Detectives have been working hard to try to
identify the baby girl and her
mother since the newborn
was found on August 16.
Police have secured a significant
amount of CCTV footage from various trucks
coming into
the Recycling Plant, but are no closer to establishing
what
suburb the baby girl has come from and what
recycling truck she came in.
Given there was no way to
determine for certain the newborn came to the
recycling
facility in the blue bag she was found near, and that there
are
several suburbs where such blue bags are used, Police
are hoping their DNA
phase will lead to some
answers.
Police are working closely with the ESR forensic
scientists in their DNA
phase and narrowing down over 300
potential familial links.
These potential contacts are
from all over the country, and enquiries have
been made
in Christchurch and Hamilton as well as across Tamaki
Makaurau.
Detective Inspector Scott Beard says Police
would like to thank those in the
community who have been
offering support.
Police have been overwhelmed with those
people in the wider community showing
their respects for
the baby girl.
Some members of the community have also
chosen to name the baby Anahera,
which means Angel and at
the same time provided two teddy bears and a
traditional
Kahu Huruhuru for the baby girl to wear at her eventual
funeral.
Detective Inspector Scott Beards says Police
continue to appeal for the
mother of the baby, or anyone
who may know she is, to do the right thing and
contact
Police.
“We know someone knows what happened and we urge
them, or anyone who
suspects they may know who her mother
is to come forward and speak to us.”
Anyone with
information is urged to contact 105 quoting file
number
210816/2825 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800
555
111.