Police have found the mother of a baby found dead in shed at a suburban Christchurch boarding house.
Detective Inspector Tom Fitzgerald said tonight they were speaking to the woman and she was "helping police with the circumstances of the abandoning of the child".
Meanwhile the inquiry was continuing into the discovery of the baby's body in the shed of a boarding house in suburban Waltham yesterday morning.
Mr Fitzgerald earlier said the baby may have been dead for up two years, saying it could have died anytime between three months ago and up to 24 months ago. Police were seeking information on the baby's gender, and how, when and where it died.
Up to 12 people live at the boarding house, but they had not seen a baby at there, Mr Fitzgerald said.
The body was taken away from the house by hearse, in a washing basket.
