A toddler’s body has been found buried in a shallow backyard grave in Brookfield, Melbourne’s outer northwest.
Police were investigating a disappearance when they made the grisly discovery, and it took them six hours to find the 18-month-old boy’s body, after they began digging on Monday.
The toddler was found buried in a shallow grave just 50cm deep, and it has been reported that the remains may have been there for 14 years.
7News also reported that the boy lived at the home with his parents and two siblings in 2014, before they moved back overseas, possibly Albania, and he was not reported missing at the time.
“Something like this is not supposed to happen but it’s happened 14 years ago. Something very bad. Very terrible,” the current owner of the house told the publication.
Victoria Police confirmed that the current residents have no knowledge of the past tenants and have no connection to the investigation.
The remains have yet to be formally identified.
“The coroner has been advised and a postmortem will occur in due course,” Victoria Police said.
“The Missing Persons Squad will now assume primacy of the investigation which remains ongoing.”
It has been reported that police were tipped off by one of the toddler’s relatives who could no longer keep the secret.
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