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Child's head found in park after discovery of other dismembered body parts

The feet and hand of a toddler were discovered on Saturday.

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A CHILD’S HEAD has been found in the lagoon of a Chicago park as police search for the remains of a toddler whose body parts were discovered there on Saturday.

Police were called to the park on Saturday afternoon after a member of the public reported seeing what turned out to be a toddler’s left foot floating in the lagoon at Garfield Park.

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A right food and a hand were subsequently found just 25 metres away. Police said the remains were badly decomposed but appeared to be those of a toddler.

Today Fox News reports a child’s head was also found yesterday in the water.

Police spokesperson Janel Sedevic told Associated Press that officers have recovered additional parts after investigators waded for hours through the shallow water. They also used a canine unit on the banks of the lagoon.

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Authorities say the lagoon may have to be drained to ensure there are no other remains in it.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Officer said it is examining the remains.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 3:55 PM

    Detective says the attack is ” unsual ” for a town like Ballymoney.
    Anyone put some sense to that for me. ..

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    Jan 6th 2015, 3:57 PM

    No idea! Ballymoney is a typical unionist Hellhole.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 4:12 PM

    It’s normally a quiet town.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 5:15 PM

    Is that where you are from it was the nationalist again was it?

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    Jan 6th 2015, 6:05 PM

    I have no idea who it was, it’s a shocking innocent that thankfully doesn’t happen here too often.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 6:15 PM

    I think you mean incident numpty! Im glad your taken a mature view this time there may be hope for you yet

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    Jan 6th 2015, 7:41 PM

    Predictive txt on my fone. Sorry about that mate. I’ll strive for better in future.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 7:58 PM

    Good man keep up the good work!

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    Jan 6th 2015, 3:55 PM

    They haven’t gone away you know…

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    Jan 6th 2015, 4:38 PM

    Who??

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    Jan 6th 2015, 5:05 PM

    Murdering terrorist lowlifes in general

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    Jan 6th 2015, 5:14 PM

    Where does it say terrorists? Missed that bit now you could be right but you could also be wrong!

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    Jan 6th 2015, 6:41 PM

    Call it intuition…
    It may or may not have been paramilitaries, but either way, in my book kneecapping and beating someone to death is a terrorist act regardless of which gang is doing it.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Thats a bit of an extreme view

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    Jan 6th 2015, 11:06 PM

    Why?

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    Jan 6th 2015, 4:39 PM

    Seems to be an uplift in violent crime up North recently.

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    Jan 6th 2015, 4:20 PM

    Don’t piss people off!

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