{"id":113339,"date":"2026-01-26T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:00:35","slug":"nyc-mom-charged-with-allegedly-stuffing-body-of-newborn-into-duffel-bag-hiding-corpse-in-closet-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113339\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mom charged with allegedly stuffing body of newborn into duffel bag, hiding corpse in closet: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reclusive Brooklyn mom stuffed\u00a0her dead 1-month-old son<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0a duffel bag and stashed his tiny body in a closet \u2014 horrifying her unsuspecting neighbors, police and sources said.<\/p>\n

Gynae Kendall, 25, was charged Sunday with concealment of a human corpse, one day after police said they found little Adonnys unresponsive inside the Flatbush apartment.<\/p>\n

Cops made the grisly discovery after the baby\u2019s maternal grandmother called the NYPD and asked them to conduct a wellness check late Saturday, telling police she was worried after not seeing the boy for some time, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

Gynae Kendall, 25, was charged with concealment of a human corpse in the death of her 1-month-old son Adonnys Kendall, police said.\u00a0 Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Questioned by the officers at the scene, Kendall claimed the newborn was with his dad \u2014 but the 30-year-old father denied it \u2014 prompting a search of the apartment that led to the heartbreaking discovery around 7:30 p.m., the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said Adonnys, who was wrapped in a blanket and stuffed inside the bag, was pronounced dead by EMS at the scene.<\/p>\n

There were no apparent signs of trauma, sources said.<\/p>\n

Kendall refused to cooperate with police and demanded a lawyer before she was booked and charged, the sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking,\u201d one 29-year-old tenant told The Post on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking that a newborn had to die. It makes us feel unsafe. I don\u2019t want to live here anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to live in a building where people like this are let in and allowed to live here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little Adonnys was stuffed into a duffel bag in the closet, sources said. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

Shocked residents at the building at Veronica Place near Beverly Road said Kendall was a reclusive presence, refusing to make eye contact with neighbors on the few occasions she was spotted outside of her seventh-floor apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never spoke with anyone in the building,\u201d said tenant Christopher Kinney, a personal care attendant. \u201cYou never heard yelling or screaming or anything like that coming out of her apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut she always sounded like she was cooking or laughing on the phone with a girlfriend and just playing music really loud,\u201d Kinney added. \u201cShe was loud and noisy, usually pop music or rap music. You would hear it far away outside on the floor, you could hear it from this far away around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several tenants told The Post they were assured they were moving into a luxury building \u2014 only to find out that several of their neighbors were not well-to-do, but rather homeless and had gotten in through the city housing lottery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also said Adonnys\u2019 father was a \u201ccreepy\u201d presence who would stalk tenants and engage them in uncomfortably probing conversations in the elevator and hallways.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The child\u2019s official cause of death will be determined by the city medical examiner\u2019s office. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked at me weird and then got in the elevator, and he said, \u2018Hmm, you sexy. What are you into?’\u201d a building resident who identified himself only as Jonathan V. recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen he kept looking at me while we were riding the elevator,\u201d Jonathan said. \u201cLo and behold, he started asking me more sexual questions, like, \u2018Oh, what are you into?’\u201d<\/p>\n

One tenant said the dad started going through his belongings in the lobby when he was moving in, and another caught him outside his door on a Ring camera and posted the images around the building as a caution to his neighbors.<\/p>\n

Adonnys\u2019 dad has not been charged with wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The baby\u2019s official cause of death will be determined by the Office of the Medical Examiner, authorities said. <\/p>\n

Investigators are also waiting for the autopsy to determine whether the mom will face additional charges, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reclusive Brooklyn mom stuffed\u00a0her dead 1-month-old son\u00a0in\u00a0a duffel bag and stashed his tiny body in a closet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3283,98,100,99,303,1015,57,9,24,9549,63,58],"class_list":["post-113339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arrests","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newborn","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113339","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=113339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}