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Who Is 'Baby Justice'?

By David Lohr

Police in Albuquerque, N.M., are trying to identify the body of a young child who was found buried in a shallow grave at a local playground last week. According to Albuquerque Police Officer Nadine Hamby, a woman visiting Alvarado Park on the afternoon of May 15 spotted a small sneaker protruding from beneath the sand underneath a swing set. When she reached down to pick up the shoe, the woman was horrified to discover that it was still attached to a foot. When forensic experts exhumed the body from the makeshift grave, they discovered it was that of a 3-to-5 year old boy. A preliminary autopsy revealed he was of either Native American or Hispanic descent, 38 pounds, 38 inches tall, with brown eyes and dark quarter-inch hair. He was wearing black nylon running pants with red stripes, a red shirt with a monster truck on it, and black, gray and lime green Skechers sneakers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).