UK UK - Baby boy, on the riverbank, Kirkham, Lancs, Sept 2011

A funeral has been held for a baby boy whose body was found dumped in a ditch and whose identify still remains unknown.

The boy, around a month old, was born full term but was abandoned on the banks of a stream last October.

His body, wrapped in an Asda fleece, was discovered by a dog walker in a remote rural area of Kirkham, Lancs.
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Last night a 5pm burial service was held for the unnamed youngster at St Michael’s Parish Church, Kirkham after locals clubbed together to pay for the ceremony.
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DCI [Andrea] Barrow said: 'Some cases get to you, and this is one. But we will never give up hope of learning how the little boy came to be placed in this remote area.

'It was so far off the beaten track, it could have only been known to someone familiar with the locality.'
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not_my_kids said:

I am confused. It says that the baby was about a month old, but later on they say that they don't even know if he lived after birth.

Was it supposed to say that he was there by the brook for a month before they found him?

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The boy, who was thought to be no more than a few weeks old, was found in Spen Brook, off Carr Lane, Kirkham, on 1 October last year.
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Detectives believe the baby was no more than a month old and had been born at full-term.
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