Cops baffled over dead child ID

26th March 2010

Police have launched a massive inquiry in an effort to establish the identify of a mysterious child found dead and floating in a lake near the border town of Cieszyn.

Investigators believe that the boy, believed to be aged around three years old, was the victim of violence after the post-mortem revealed that an abdominal trauma had ruptured his small intestine, which resulted, prosecutors said, in peritonitis.

The autopsy also suggested that the boy had not been on the lake long before he was discovered. A group of teenagers had raised the alarm when they saw the body in the water and told their parents.

The fact that no-one has claimed the child, despite massive publicity surroundi ...