Detectives seek new information two years after baby's legs were discovered at Hunts Point water treatment plant
Police were called to the Hunts Point Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 31, 2022, when workers found two legs from a baby, hours apart.
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Saturday marks two years since two severed legs belonging to a baby were found at a Hunts Point water treatment plant. Detectives are asking for new information to help them solve it.
Police were called to the Hunts Point Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 31, 2022, when workers found two legs from a baby, hours apart. The discovery was made while they were sifting through sewage from lines running through 10 Bronx zip codes that all feed into the facility.
"Not only do they get all this water from these different locations in the Bronx, somebody could've come from some other location and just dumped the body parts there in a nearby sewer," said NYPD Detective Frankie Soler.
Efforts to identify the infant were just as difficult. The medical examiner determined both legs came from the same baby girl, 38 weeks along. Detectives scoured hospital records looking for a match to any newborns but were unable to find any. Without the rest of her body, investigators say a cause and manner of death cannot be determined. which prevents them from being able to submit DNA to federal databases.
The NYPD has named her "Baby August," and they say the key to moving this case forward if someone speaking up.
"Anybody that has any information about baby august, whether it's more unfortunate body parts out there or someone who's related to the baby," said NYPD Detective Devernier Smith. "If they know somebody who was possibly pregnant around the time frame of Aug. 31, 2022, but they don't have the baby right now."
Anyone with information that can help detectives in their investigation into Baby August can contact the NYPD's 41st Precinct or reach out to Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-577-TIPS.
