The body of a month-old boy found in a duffel bag stuffed in a closet inside his family’s apartment was in an advanced state of decomposition — and his mother told cops her son hadn’t been home for at least two weeks before being arrested for hiding his corpse, prosecutors said.
Gynae Kendall, 25, was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court late Monday, granted supervised release and ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.
The city Medial Exmainer is conducting an autopsy on little Adonnys Kendall to determine how he died in his family’s home on Veronica Place near Beverly Road in East Flatbush. The body showed no obvious signs of trauma and blood and tissue tests could take weeks to complete, a law enforcement source said.
Cops were called to the apartment about 7:30 p.m. Sunday after Kendall’s mother called 911, concerned for her daughter’s welfare.
Kendall was home when police arrived but her baby was nowhere to be found.
Kendall claimed Adonnys had not been home for two weeks but “gave varying inconsistent statements about the child’s whereabouts,” prosecutors said in court papers.
Cops searching the apartment found Adonnys’ body “wrapped in a duffel bag inside a closet,” prosecutors said. The infant’s “eyes were sunken, his skin was sloughing and there was a strong odor of decomposition,” court documents say.
There were no marks on the infant’s body and it wasn’t immediately clear how long she had been dead.
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The apartment where one-month-old Adonnys Kendall died. (Nicholas Williams / New York Daily News)
The city’s Medical Examiner’s office is trying to figure out how Adonnys died,
Kendall has no prior criminal record, officials said. So far, all she has been charged with is concealment of a human corpse.
The infant’s death caught neighbors off guard.
Neighbor Niaz Femd, who lives on the same floor as the mother, said she rarely saw the woman.
“From October to January, I saw her maybe like two times getting out of the elevator,” Femd said. “Who are we living next to and what is everything coming to?”