{"id":112759,"date":"2026-01-26T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:16:22","slug":"infant-found-dead-in-duffel-bag-in-closet-of-brooklyn-familys-home-mom-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112759\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant found dead in duffel bag in closet of Brooklyn family\u2019s home, mom arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An inant girl was found dead in a duffel bag stuffed in a closet of her family\u2019s Brooklyn apartment \u2014 and her mother has been arrested for hiding the body, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gynae Kendall, 25, was charged Sunday with concealment of a human corpse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her month-old daughter, Adonnys Kendall, was found dead in the duffel bag inside the closet when police at 7:30 p.m. Saturday responded to the family\u2019s East Flatbush apartment on Veronica Place near Beverly Road.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The infant\u2019s worried grandmother had called 911 and asked police to check on the infant, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The infant\u2019s cause of death has not yet been determined and it was not immediately clear how long she had been dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kendall was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inant girl was found dead in a duffel bag stuffed in a closet of her family\u2019s Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[50243,98,100,99,50242,7668,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-112759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-adonnys-kendall","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-duffel-bag","13":"tag-human-corpse","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}