Tragedy struck Philadelphia's Mantua section where a child’s body was found in a ghastly state, abandoned inside a duffle bag, as reported by CBS News Philadelphia. The horrifying discovery was made on Monday, just before 10 a.m., by crews working at a property on North 38th Street; the corpse was so badly decomposed that initial reports indicate an inability to ascertain even basic identifiers such as age beyond a rough estimate of 4 to 7 years old or gender.
NBC Philadelphia detailed that police cordoned off the area roughly 15 minutes after the find. The condition of the remains compounding the abomination, having lingered in their fabric tomb for an undetermined period of time, has further mystified and complicated efforts to understand who this child was and how long their innocence lay surrendered to elements hidden from care or comfort.
As authorities delve deeper into the cause of the mysterious death, there are no clear signs of trauma on the body due to its severe decomposition, noted CBS News Philadelphia. With a multitude of unanswerable inquiries lingering like heavy air, police are painstakingly wading through the murkiness to put together a timeline and circumstances that forced such a conclusion to a child's life, untold and unknown.
As the investigation forges onward, police consider potential connections between this case and any other missing persons affairs in the surrounding area as insinuated by 6abc.com with many hoping that this could shine a light on, perhaps, a broader issue or that this incident stands gruesomely alone.
