Sewage Clean-Up Turns Into A Gruesome Find Of A Headless Baby Chopped Up Into 15 Pieces
Workers cleaning a sewage plant nearby a housing area in Johor were shocked to discover dismembered body parts stuck to a waste trap on Sunday afternoon.
By Samantha Khor — 19 May 2015, 01:33 PM
On 17 May, workers who were cleaning a sewage plan in the Kempas Permas public housing area at Johor Bahru were greeted with a gory sight when they discovered several pieces of meat stuck to a garbage trap
The pieces of meat turned out to be dismembered body parts belonging to an infant. Horrified, the workers immediately informed their supervisor, who then notified the police.
Police have since confirmed that about 15 body parts have been recovered, minus the head. It is believed that a meat cleaver was used to chop up the infant before flushing the body parts down the toilet, while the head may have been disposed of or buried elsewhere.
The police officer in charge of Johor Baru (North) district, Asst Comm Mohd Khamsani Abdul Rahman, said that the parts had been sent to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital for a post-mortem.
thestar.com.my“The body parts were found stuck in garbage traps. It is believed that the suspects tried to destroy evidence by flushing the body parts down the toilet,” he said today.
“This explains the missing head, which may have been disposed or buried some place else as it would be too big to be flushed,” the source told The Rakyat Post today.
A meat cleaver was believed to have been used.
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ACP Mohd Khamsani also said that the sewage plant is connected via pipes to the public housing area of 1,288 units. It is suspected that those responsible for the gruesome find may be living in the low-cost flats.
Police believe that it may be an act of desperation that led those responsible to chop up a newborn baby to be flushed down the toilet for ease of disposal.
Investigators from the Johor Baru Utara police are not ruling out this possibility following yesterday’s gruesome find in a septic tank at the Kempas Permai residential flats area.
Those involved were believed to be young and most probably in their teens.
Police are checking on homes and health clinics in the Kempas Permai vicinity for leads into the case.
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"We will be knocking on each door to find who is responsible," ACP Mohd Khamsani vowed.
This is the third case involving babies being cruelly left for dead this month. Last week, on 11 May, twin baby girls were found dead and abandoned in a cupboard at a complex in Macallum Street, Penang.
The twins were wrapped in a towel and abandoned inside a cupboard at the stairway of the complex.
thestar.com.myNortheast district police chief ACP Mior Faridalathrash Wahid said a cleaner found the victims wrapped in towel about 10.30am.
"We believe the premature-born babies, aged between seven and eight months were left in the cupboard for less than 24 hours," he said.
"The police have detained three foreign men to facilitate investigations while a search is underway for the dead twins' mother, believed to be a foreigner, too. The woman was known to live in the same block where the victims were found."
He added that the cupboard which had no doors was left beside the lift in the past one week. Mior Faridalathrash requested clinics and hospitals with information on a woman who had just delivered twins to contact the nearest police station to facilitate investigations.
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Three days before that, a newborn baby girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found abandoned and left to drown inside a toilet tank at a petrol station in Pasir Besar, Gemas.
A police source said the baby girl which believed born on Thursday, found by the petrol station staff in the female washroom about 5pm.
The source said the baby was still alive when being discovered, however, passed away when on the way to a clinic nearby.
"We suspected the baby passed away due to drowning. Therefore police are hunting the suspect who abandoned the baby inside the toilet tank under Section 318 of the Penal Code for concealing a birth," the source said.