'Baby June' murder: Mom arrested four years after newborn's body was found floating in Boynton Beach inlet
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA: The mother of "Baby June" has been arrested, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said on Thursday, December 15, 2022, ending a four-year-old mysterious case. The infant was discovered dead in the Boynton Beach inlet on June 1, 2018, at around 1.30 pm and was given the moniker "Baby June" by Sheriff's office as she wasn't officially identified. It was believed she could have drifted up from as far south as Broward County, according to investigators. The infant's body was found floating in the sea by an off-duty firefighter.
The baby girl was between four to seven days old and her body was floating in the ocean for six to 18 hours before being discovered. It's not yet clear how the baby ended up in the water. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's office was scheduled to hold a news conference at 12.30 pm on Thursday to provide more information, while no additional details about the mother's arrest have been released yet. The Sheriff's office had offered a $10,000 reward for information about the case.
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The sheriff's office said a DNA profile obtained from "Baby June" has been submitted to a DNA genealogical database to search for anyone related to the newborn. In an effort to identify the baby, Palm Beach County detectives have checked on more than 700 babies that were born in Palm Beach and Broward counties during the timeframe that PBSO believes Baby June was born, WPTV reported. A medical examiner found the infant was no older than 14 days old and ruled the case as murder. Her umbilical cord had been severed, and she had a needle puncture on her heel. Detectives came to the conclusion that she was born in a hospital, as per NBC.
After "Baby June" was found, detectives reportedly said that she could be a combination of African or Central Asian race, and one year later, the Sheriff's office declared her case as a homicide.
Anyone with additional information about the case is asked to call Det B Hansen of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office's Special Victims Unit at 561-688-4167, hansenb@pbso.org, or Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-TIPS.