The body of a three-month-old girl discovered in a wooded area has been identified, and cops are questioning her parents in the suspicious death.
Genevieve Comager’s remains were found on Sunday shortly before 8.30pm on West 161st Street and the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, police sources told the New York Post on Monday.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency workers, according to cops.
Genevieve lived at a shelter close by with her family and the circumstances around the death are being considered suspicious, sources told the newspaper.
Law enforcement officials are questioning her mother, 20, and her father, 23, with a focus on her dad, they said.
Authorities were called to the shelter earlier on Sunday after a family member reported concern about the infant’s wellbeing to the Administration for Children’s Services, police said. The body was recovered during the search at the shelter, which is classified as transitional housing and sits on University Avenue.
It has been sent to a medical examiner’s office to determine the cause and manner of death.
No charges had been filed in the case as of Monday.
The incident comes just over a week after the bodies of 11-year-old Alfa Barrie and 13-year-old Garrett Warren of Harlem were pulled out of the Harlem River. The two teens had been missing for nearly a week and were last seen at a park near 143rd and Lenox streets. It was not clear how each boy entered the water, and an investigation into their deaths is ongoing.
Their deaths were ‘just heart-piercing’, said Iesha Sekou, founder of the anti-violence organization Street Corner Resources in Harlem.
‘I’m a mother,’ Sekou, who was involved in the search, told The New York Times. ‘And so there’s no way that you could be a mother and not feel that, in particular.’
