Police get tips on girl found dead in bag in Boston Harbor

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts authorities say hundreds of tips have poured in from across the country after they released a computer-generated image of a young girl found dead in a plastic bag in Boston Harbor.

State police spokesman David Procopio tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1GVw7CX ) that people have provided information on other missing children, too.

Officials released the image Thursday in an attempt to generate clues about the girl's identity, which remains unknown.

Officials believe the brown-haired, brown-eyed girl was about 4 years old. Her body was found June 25 on Deer Island inside a plastic bag that also contained a black and white zebra-print blanket.

FULL short story at link.



This flyer released Thursday, July 2, 2015, by the Suffolk County Massachusetts District Attorney includes a computer-generated composite image depicting the possible likeness of a young girl, whose body was found on the shore of Deer Island in Boston Harbor on June 25, inside a bag that also contained a black and white zebra-print blanket. She was wearing white leggings with black polka dots. Officials believe the brown-haired, brown-eyed girl was about 4 years old and are hoping the information generates clues about her identity. (Suffolk County District Attorney via AP)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/92702915f3d0495194862024c0f5d40c/police-get-tips-girl-found-dead-bag-boston-harbor

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Beautiful child.

[snagglepuss]

1. So horrific. No one msut have reported her missing.

[irisblue]

2. someones baby girl

f$%K drugs...

[eggplant]

6. what?

What do drugs have to do with this?

[COLGATE4]

3. There ought to be a special place

in Hell for people who would do this to a little girl.

[MBS]

16. " " " "" n/t

[Historic NY]

21. Yes and they need a fast track to that destination.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Check upriver for a messy custody battle.

[Warpy]

7. Could also be a combination of accidental death and extreme poverty

causing a grieving family to bury their daughter at sea instead of being treated like criminals by the cops and another debt they have no ability to pay to cremate or bury her.

Autopsy results should be very interesting.

However, you're more likely to be correct.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Good point.

[jtuck004]

10. The People of the Abyss, 2015 version. n/t

[scarletwoman]

14. Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Too poor to own a shovel? But not so poor that they couldn't get out on a boat for a "burial at sea"?

If this girl was loved by a poor grieving family who couldn't afford a plot in a cemetary, they could have dug a grave for her themselves somewhere, in order to lay her to rest to the best of their ability. It's one of the oldest human instincts there is, to bury your beloved dead in the earth.

Instead, she was discarded like trash, just another piece of litter dropped into the sea.

[Warpy]

15. Have you ever been to the greater Boston area?

It's glacial moraine on top of granite.

However, enjoy your outrage.

I'll wait for the full story to come out. I'm just telling DU that there might be another explanation besides the worst and to wait for the autopsy and someone to come forward and identify her body.

[scarletwoman]

17. My apologies, I did not mean to offend you.

I am not "outraged", I simply doubt that there will turn out to be any relatively benign explanation for this girl's fate.

[Warpy]

18. If you read my whole post

you'll note that I do, also.

[Xithras]

23. While I agree with you that it probably wasn't a burial at sea...

...your presumption that it's uncommon is VERY incorrect. In Hinduism, there's actually an expectation that bodies will be disposed of in rivers (the Ganges if possible, but any river works if not). Even in America, it's fairly common for Hindus to be cremated and have their ashes taken to India to be dumped in the river, just to fulfill this requirement.

Among the Christian faiths, there's some disagreement on the subject. The Catholics ban it outright. The Anglicans permit it, and even have a specific burial at sea ceremony for use when doing so.

Judaism prohibits it. Islam states that ground burial is preferred, but it's not required and the Fiqh contains procedures to be followed if a sea burial is chosen.

Historically, MANY societies have chosen funerary practices that don't involve burying people. From the well known Viking funerals (pyres on boats), to the modern sky burials in Tibet, to Zoroastrian's literally feeding their dead to the birds.

It's also perfectly legal in the U.S. Federal law simply says that burials must occur at least three miles offshore and in water more than 600 feet deep.

[Chemisse]

26. I wondered about that too.

And if perhaps she died of natural causes. Particularly since there wasn't a cause of death that was immediately apparent.

Of course the odds are against it.

[whathehell]

24. Is it common for a parent or parents to kill the child they are battling for?

I certainly hope not.

[FLPanhandle]

5. One crime that deserves the Death Penalty

No sympathy for the murderer here.

[shenmue]

9. ....

[cindyperry]

11. how awful

poor baby girl

[Sienna86]

12. What a beautiful little girl.

This is terribly sad. Whatever happened, we need to know.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. I can't stand it

[LoisB]

19. I am with you on that.

[rateyes]

20. Damn.

Just damn.

[secondwind]

22. what a horrific story... and 30 lbs. at 4 yrs... I know that most babies weigh at least 20-22 lbs.

at one year of age...

[Sunlei]

25. no more news if any of the tips have helped with this case?

we've come a long way with dna tests.

Does anyone know? If with these type of cases, the childs dna is run through the national database to see if the child can be IDed with any relatives in our prison system database? (prisoners are dna tested)