Bissau, 15 March, 2025 / 9:52 pm (ACI Africa).
Church officials in the Catholic Diocese of Bafatá in Guinea-Bissau are calling for unity in the “search for justice” after the body of a three-year-old missing girl was found buried, dismembered, and with some of her organs removed.
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, March 12, the Diocesan Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Bafatá, Fr. Lúcio Brentegani, and the Vicar General of Bissau Diocese, Fr. Davide Sciocco, weigh in on the March 7 discovery.
A March 10 report has José Costa, a Bissau-Guinean government administrator providing details of the medical findings on the body of the girl.
"According to the medical report, the child was without a kidney in the right part and without a heart," José Costa is quoted as saying about the dismembered body of the girl found São Domingos town that is located some 25 kilometers from the border between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.
"So far no one has been detained because of this sad case," José Costa further says about the girl, who had been reported missing on March 7 afternoon and whose dismembered body was discovered buried during the early hours of March 8.