An infant boy was found dead and discarded under a pile of leaves behind a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday, police said.
The grisly discovery was made on E. 102nd St. near Seaview Ave., behind NYCHA’s Bay View Houses in Canarsie, about 11 a.m., cops said.
The baby, believed to be between 5 and 7 months old, was was found stuffed in a bag under the pile of leaves, a police source said. An autopsy was slated to determine how the child died as cops work to identify him.
The grim discovery comes just a day after a newborn boy was found alive stuffed in a bag in the Bronx.
That baby was found in a bag outside an apartment in an E. 233rd St. building in The Bronx, cops said. The baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached, appeared to be in good health and was taken to Montefiore Medical Center for an evaluation.
Cops quickly located the newborn’s mother, Claudette Tinnin, 28, who lives in the building but in another apartment.
Tinnin was charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and abandonment of a child. Her arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Thursday.
On April 6, also in the Bronx, she was arrested for punching a police officer, although the circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear.
