Nearly two weeks after the remains of a
young girl were found along the rocky shoreline of Boston Harbor, more than 45
million people have seen or shared a computer-generated image of what she may
have looked like in life.
But authorities are no closer to
identifying her.
She is known only as "Baby
Doe" and believed to be about 4 years old -- with big brown eyes and brown
hair reaching just below her shoulders, according to investigators. She was
about 3½ feet tall and weighed about 30 pounds.
The National
Center for Missing & Exploited Childrenreleased the image last week.
Massachusetts State Police posted it on Facebook. In that time, more than 45
million people have seen or shared her countenance on social media, according
to Renee Nadeau Algarin, deputy press secretary at the Suffolk County District
Attorney's office.
Police released photos of the blanket
and the polka-dot leggings she was wearing.
"I think we all know she's a
beautiful child," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said.
Conley this week made a public appeal to
the girl's parents.
"We ask the parents or caregivers
of this young girl to please step forward and clear your conscience," he
said at a news conference.
Authorities are awaiting the results of
toxicology tests to determine whether the girl was poisoned or ingested drugs
before her death, Conley said.
It's unclear how long she had been dead
but there was a modest amount of decomposition when her remains were removed
from the trash bag, according to Conley.
"Based on tips received, we have
coordinated about 20 well-being checks with police in other jurisdictions after
people contacted our investigators concerned about children who they believed
may have been missing," Algarin said."The children in all of those
checks turned up fine."
The child's body was discovered June 25
along the shore of Deer Island, a narrow peninsula just east of Boston's Logan
Airport. The island houses several large, egg-like sludge treatment cylinders,
which help remove human and industrial pollutants from waste water originating
from 43 greater Boston communities, according to the Massachusetts Water
Resources Authority.
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