By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
Pansy Campbell - Norman Grindley /Staff Photographer
HEAD OF the Manchester Police Division, Superintendent George Quallo, says that the police are probing the mysterious disappearance of 'Baby Pansy' from the Mandeville Regional Hospital.
"We are going full speed ahead to resolve this issue," assured Supt. Quallo.
Responding to questions as to why it took the police so long to launch an investigation, he said that no formal report was made to the police until last Monday.
The child was transferred from the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon to the Mandeville Regional Hospital, where she was admitted August 21 last year, one day after she was born. There are reports that the child died while being hospitalised, but to date the body cannot be located to prove death.
TRYING TO GET IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Under the supervision of the division's crime officer, Deputy Superintendent Franklyn Mitchell, the team of investigators have so far recorded five statements and in the process getting their hands on some vital documents to assist in their investigations.
Among the list of persons interviewed and statements recorded from them are the infant's parents Leroy McLean and Pansy Campbell Sheryl Cameron, the chief executive officer at the Mandeville Hospital and a paediatrician who is attached to the hospital.
THE FUNERAL HOME FACTOR
"We will also be collecting statements from a number of other persons, including a comprehensive statement from Calvin Lyn, the proprietor of Lyn's Funeral Home," Supt. Quallo told The Gleaner yesterday.
But speaking with The Gleaner, Sylvia Lyn, co-operator of the funeral home, said the police are yet to question any member of her staff. According to Julieth Lyn, daughter of the proprietors, it has been nine months since 'Baby Pansy' has mysteriously disappeared.
"Within the nine months, three of the persons who used to work here are no longer with us. Two resigned and one died," explain Julieth Lyn.
She was responding to questions about the possibility of any of her staff being implicated.
"Something went wrong somewhere, but I am sure it was not on our part," said Sylvia Lyn.
