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Mummified Baby Suitcase - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 7th Feb, 2007 - 8:30pm
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The boy is curled in a fetal position, with light-colored curly hair covering his head and wrapped in 50-year-old newspaper
Mummified Baby Found In Suitcase
This must have been a shock for the woman who found it! Imagine opening a suitcase and finding the corpse of a little baby!
QUOTE DELRAY BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- The face of a partially mummified baby boy, wrapped in newspaper since 1957, is haunting -- chilling even. Imagine the shock when a suitcase was opened two weeks ago in a storage locker by a woman in Florida, and there it was, a mummified corpse with his umbilical cord still attached.
Investigators showed me photos of the remains. The boy is curled in a fetal position, with light-colored curly hair covering his head. The remains measure just under a foot and weigh only 13 ounces.
"You can see the actual facial features. You can see the eyes. The slit for the mouth ... And also portions of the fingers and toes," said lead Detective Gene Sapino of the Delray Beach Homicide Division. "At first, I wasn't convinced it was a child -- until I saw the face. ... It's obviously emotional because that's a child."
I was also shown the contents found with the child, which was stuffed in a decal-covered suitcase, crammed into an even larger piece of luggage. Inside that suitcase, there was an intriguing black-and-white photograph of a little girl probably not yet 10 years old. Near the photo, there was a small striped box, and inside, a silver, thimble-sized container holding a tiny rosary. There were two religious cards…
Investigators showed me photos of the remains. The boy is curled in a fetal position, with light-colored curly hair covering his head. The remains measure just under a foot and weigh only 13 ounces.
"You can see the actual facial features. You can see the eyes. The slit for the mouth ... And also portions of the fingers and toes," said lead Detective Gene Sapino of the Delray Beach Homicide Division. "At first, I wasn't convinced it was a child -- until I saw the face. ... It's obviously emotional because that's a child."
I was also shown the contents found with the child, which was stuffed in a decal-covered suitcase, crammed into an even larger piece of luggage. Inside that suitcase, there was an intriguing black-and-white photograph of a little girl probably not yet 10 years old. Near the photo, there was a small striped box, and inside, a silver, thimble-sized container holding a tiny rosary. There were two religious cards…
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It would have been heart wrenching! It was very small child, I question if it was a still born and the picture might have been the mother. Given the time of 57 home birth was almost standard so it could have been just a still birth and the picture could have been one of the few the mother even had of herself. After all owning a camera was still a big deal in that time.
Given the care and love put into the "burial" I doubt it was an unloved child but more so a weak one that just did not make it.
| Rather off topic, but... I walk many cemeteries and have seen many graves for children under the age of 5. I am grateful for todays medical care we have. My oldest would not have been alive today if he was born 50 years ago due to conflicting blood types. I guess I would have never married my wife either.  |
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