A baby boy was found dead in a black bag, ditched in a pile of leaves behind a Brooklyn public housing development Thursday, cops and law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n
The infant \u2014 believed to be between 5 and 7 months old \u2013 was found just after 11 a.m. behind a building on East 102nd Street, within NYCHA\u2019s Bay View Houses in Canarsie, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n
The little boy\u2019s lifeless body was discovered stuffed in a black bag and buried among a mound of fallen leaves, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Police arrive at the scene where the baby was found. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
The disturbing discovery was uncovered at NYCHA\u2019s Bay View Houses in Canarsie. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
The baby was pronounced dead at the scene. Kyle Mazza<\/p>\n
EMS workers responded and pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear how long the child had been there before the heartbreaking discovery, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office will officially determine how he died, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby boy was found dead in a black bag, ditched in a pile of leaves behind a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7986,98,303,4081,57,9,56,63,65,64,305,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-46474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-babies","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-human-remains","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-nycha","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474","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=46474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}