Dangriga woman arrested for infant’s death

One day after the remains of a male newborn were found in a pit latrine in Dangriga, police have arrested twenty-seven year old Terene Gonzales. Gonzales is suspected of giving birth at her home on Eleventh Street in Dangriga on Saturday August twenty-first. On Wednesday she was picked up by police who say she confessed to putting the baby in a bucket and throwing it in the outside toilet located in her neighbor’s back yard. Police say when they asked her if the baby was alive at the time of birth she reportedly told them she did not care to find out. According to Doctor Mario Estradabran, police pathologist, because the body was badly decomposed it is hard to determine if the child was alive when it was disposed of. Estradabran told News Five he has been able to determine that it was a normal delivery. Today, Gonzales appeared in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court where she was charged with manslaughter and concealment of birth. Gonzales was released on bail.