A fetus that was discarded on a Brooklyn street has been given a name and received a proper funeral and burial on Saturday with police officers joining in the final tribute.
Six NYPD officers acted as pallbearers at the service for baby Monica at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at 60th St. and Fifth Ave. in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, parading a little casket past parishioners and members of the Life Center of New York, which organized the funeral. An NYPD piper played dolefully.
“It’s kind of sad, a bunch of strangers are burying the kid,” said 70-year-old Life Center member Eileen Bolger.
Baby Monica was found dead under a tree near the Nathaniel Greene School in East New York in February. She was inside a bag surrounded by bloody clothing, witnesses said at the time. The city Medical Examiner estimated that the fetus was about 20-weeks old and would not have been viable outside the womb.
A cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but it’s been speculated that the mother …More