A deceased child’s body was found in a duffel bag at an empty Philadelphia lot Monday, police said.
City workers made the grisly discovery of the deceased child, who appeared to be between 2 and 4 years old, at around 10 a.m. in a vacant Manua neighborhood lot.
A woman said she spoke with the distraught worker who made the discovery and related to what he told her just after the find.
“He was crying, he was right in front of my car. He thought it was like a dead animal, and he dropped it because it was heavy, and when he dropped it, he said feet came out and he saw sneakers.”
The child’s remains were in an advanced state of decomposition, police said.
Detectives are working to identify the child and are checking with missing person cases in the area.
