Workers Discovered Legs of 38-Week Female on August 31, 2022; Cause and Manner of Death Remain Undetermined
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office and the New York City Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance to resolve the indignified disposal of an infant’s body parts in the Hunts Point area two years ago and identify the child.
On August 31, 2022, workers at the Department of Environmental Protection Water Plant on Ryawa Avenue discovered two severed legs. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has determined that the legs are from the same female with an approximate gestational age of 38 weeks. The cause and manner of death remain undetermined. The Water Plant receives sewage from 10 different zip codes within the Bronx. The rest of the baby’s body has not yet been found.
The OCME has uploaded her DNA into the National Database where it will be compared to Missing Persons cases, but that will not help if she has not been reported missing. Federally funded databases cannot accept her DNA profile because her death has not been ruled a homicide. Without the rest of her body, the cause and manner of death cannot be determined.
Anyone with information about this matter is urged to call Crimestoppers at 1 800-577-TIPS, the 41st Precinct Detective Squad at (718) 542- 5313 or Bronx Homicide Squad at (718) 378- 8791.
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