An infant who died more than 80 years ago and was found underneath the attic floor of a Toronto home has been given a name -- Baby Kintyre. And soon, the child will have a proper burial.
Baby Kintyre is named after the street address of the home, where renovator Bob Kinghorn discovered the child's mummified remains last month.
The baby will be laid to rest under a new program by the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness.
The non-profit group said that every year about two babies are left unidentified at the Toronto morgue.
Kinghorn found Baby Kintyre as he was about to drill a hole through a ceiling joist for wiring. He noticed a bundle of newspaper in the attic floor of the home, but at first mistook it for insulation.
"I pushed on it, just trying to guess what was in the package before I opened it and I felt the bones," Kinghorn told reporters outside the home in July.
The infant was in a fetal position wrapped in a bundle of newsprint dated Sept. 12, 1925. The baby's toes were sticking out.
"It was disbelief, I didn't believe it. I thought it was a cat, dog, or something."
He said he began to cry when he realized what he had found, because the remains reminded him of his own 4-month-old child.
The case was investigated by the homicide squad, but an autopsy found so signs of foul play.
