SCREAMS of anguish bellowed throughout the community of Belvedere in Red Hills, St Andrew yesterday as firefighters removed a heavily decomposed body believed to be that of 11-year-old Ananda Dean from a steep precipice along Cypress Drive - miles away from where she was last seen after she went missing almost two weeks ago.
 
"A she, a she.. Oh God," Ananda's aunt, Tamika Campbell bawled, after viewing the headless remains and then falling to the ground seconds later. Upon hearing the news, Nordia Campbell, Ananda's mother, also fainted at the thought that her daughter may have been brutally murdered.
 
Because of the advanced state of decomposition, no one was able to positively identify the body as that of Ananda. However, some family members, including Campbell, are convinced that it is in fact the little girl, mainly because a black size two school shoes and a navy blue uniform, similar to ones owned by the seventh-grade student of Swallowfield All-Age School, were found at the scene.
 
Yesterday, Deputy Superintendent Carol McKenzie of the police's St Andrew North Division told the Observer that DNA tests would have to be done to determine the identity of the body.
 
Ananda, who lived with her family on Whitehall Avenue in Kingston, was last seen on September 17 boarding a bus en route to Half-Way-Tree after school. Several of her school books were found a day after she went missing strewn along a pathway in the community of Pembroke Hall, miles away from where she was last seen.
 
 
Firefighters help to hoist a wooden box containing the remains believed to be that of 11-year-old Ananda Dean that was found yesterday over a precipice along the Cypress Road in Belvedere, St Andrew. (Photo: Karl McLarty)  
 
The body was discovered about 10:00 am by residents who decided to investigate the cause of a lingering nasty odour that had been plaguing nearby houses for almost two weeks.
"At first we thought it was a dead animal, but after one week passed and we realised that the scent wasn't going away some people decided to go see what it was," a resident told the Observer. "It was when they chopped out the bush and went up there they found out that it was the little girl's body up there."
 
It appeared that the body had been thrown from the precipice into overgrown bushes, which concealed it until yesterday.  
The residents also intimated that they may have overlooked clues that Ananda's body was disposed of in their community.
 
"People said they saw the uniform on the road for the longest while but they never knew it was the little girl's own," said another resident who did not wish to be named.
 
The police are speculating that the body may have been dumped hours or a day after Ananda went missing, given the state of decomposition, which resulted in a pathologist being called in to perform an on-the-spot post-mortem. It was naked and headless. In fact, a skull was all that remained of the head. There were also suggestions that she may have been raped. However, this could not be confirmed by the police.
 
Yesterday, it took the firefighters from the Stony Hill Fire Department almost three hours to remove the body resting more than 10 feet from the top of Cypress Drive. Once they were able to access the body, it was then put in a wooden box and hoisted up onto the road, keeping the scores of residents that gathered to see if the body was truly that of Ananda - the girl whose picture had been posted on fliers, placed on light posts, buses and in stores in the Corporate Area - in suspense.
 

 
Poparf we have to keep up the exposure and enlightenment campaign>Jamaica has to be seized back from the corrupt and criminal who are destroying our place !
 


 
 
The gruesome discovery of the decomposing headless and naked body of the missing 11 year old child Ananda Dean, as well as the evil blackmailers and hoaxers who found humor in the savage act is the latest reminder of the level of barbarism that Jamaican society has sunk to. Only the most serious programme to violently suppress corruption and crime,spearheaded by the DEATH PENALTY and backed by a powerful mass movement of Jamaican people can bring a halt and reverse this genocide taking place.  Only if the matter is put on a war footing will the crime crisis be solved. The very Dons that the politicians want to bring to Parliament to discuss "crime-fighting" are the very ones responsible for the escalation of street crimes which leads directly to the barbarism that brutally took the precious life of yet another innocent Jamaican child. NO NATION WITHIN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PERMIT THE KIND OF BARBARISM TAKING PLACE IN JAMAICA TO CONTINUE.  
 
The PNP & JLP have subverted the minds of the Jamaican people, this is what is preventing them from taking action!
The Jamaican people need to break away from the corrupt PNP & JLP and the criminal gangs they sponsor and start taking their own affirmative action while forcing the government to take serious action to supress the criminals who have forfeited the right to be treated as normal human beings and demand they carry out the death penalty.

DNV, I heard the little girld mum making an appeal on the radio and it was heart breaking even the presenter broke down and started crying. Your right DNV, we have to keep highlighting the wickedness that is taking place and keep the heat on the misguided boardies who like to blame poverty. Can you imagine what that poor little girl went through before those heartless evil killers took her life away?

There are no words to explain what is taking place in Jamaica.  I cannot imagine what she must have gone through, the thought is numbing.  For an 11 yr old to go through this barbarism is truly horrendous. I blame the government for sitting on their hands whilst the hoodlums roam freely to do as they please
 
RIP little Ananda

Quote from DONOT.vote on Sep 29^th, 2008, 5:53am:

 
DNV, in Jamaica there are too many people with vested interests for things to clear up. While they were making appeals for this little girl on the radio, people were still calling in about the PNP leadership race. All dem business bout was dem beloved party. When the presenter asked them about it all they could say was.....its sad. Said it many times and people jump on my back but I will say it again. The PNP and JLP aren't the answer for Jamaica. They haven't got the brains or know how. I mean, did you hear KD Knights rant in parliament last week? What an ignorant buffon and he's supposed to be leading people.

there are no words!

Quote from DONOT.vote on Sep 29^th, 2008, 6:25am:

 
Betty Anne Blaine (Nationwide Radio) was the one who broke down. She knew the family personally and was helping to search for her. I listen to that woman everyday because she no stop from talk truth

Quote from POPARF on Sep 29^th, 2008, 6:36am:

 
how odd...when dem deh wid ah man are woman if dem nah do nuttin fi dem...dem quick fi kick dem to di curb..an dem owna govament ah treat dem like dawg but dem tan up trang side ah dem anna support dem to di death.....oh soo loyal....ah wanda if ah sumin eena di wata....