Body of a Three-month-old Baby Found inside Freezer

By Izunna Okafor

It was shocking to neighbours living on the quiet street in Corowa, around 40 miles from Albury on the New South Wales-Victoria border in Australia, as a body of a baby boy, identified as Kevin John Patten was found wrapped in a plastic sheet inside a chest freezer.

This was discovered shortly after they heard anguished screams of a baby at around 10pm on Wednesday, January 19.

The neighbours narrated that days before the baby's cry was heard, the mother of the three-month-old child, Ms Kylie Patten, had posted a disturbing picture of her baby on Facebook with images of satanic demons and insects overlaying his face.

A relative had alerted police about their concerns for the baby's welfare.

When officers went to the house on Wednesday evening, Jan. 19, they shockingly found the baby's body in the freezer.

The freezer was seized as evidence around 3pm on Thursday, Jan. 20, and the family has vacated the property, which remains a crime scene.

Local detectives have been joined by the State Crime Command's Homicide Squad to set up Strike Force Walumil as they probe the infant's death.

A 40-year-old woman was arrested but later released without charge.

During background checks, investigators have reportedly found that Ms Patten's own twin brother died when he was just four months old.

Ms Patten had flooded her social media page with photos and posts of her newborn before he was found dead.

"Proud, looked so damn well cutie, had to...," she wrote on January 6 alongside shots of the little boy looking up at her helplessly.

Most of her posts were liked only by herself.

At other times, she posted about her cats and kittens.

In one post, she uploaded a photo of her late brother Darren's grave, writing: "I still miss my twin brother."

Ms Patten, described as having alleged mental health problems, is understood to have been living with her parents Wayne and Sue for the last six months.

It is at their address in Church Street that Kevin's body was found.

She has two older daughters from a previous marriage, with the oldest being around 24-year old; while she also has a child of her own outside the marriage.