A nearly full-term fetus was found discarded under a pile of leaves behind a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday, police said.
The grisly discovery was made on E. 102nd St. near Seaview Ave., behind NYCHA’s Bay View Houses in Canarsie, about 11 a.m., cops said.
The male fetus, believed to have been born prematurely after about seven months, was found stuffed in a bag under the pile of leaves, a police source said. An autopsy was slated to determine what happened.
The grim discovery comes just a day after a newborn boy was found alive stuffed in a bag in the Bronx.
That baby was found outside an apartment in a building on E. 233rd St., cops said. The baby, whose umbilical cord was still attached, appeared to be in good health and was taken to Montefiore Medical Center for an evaluation.
Cops quickly located the newborn’s mother, Claudette Tinnin, 28, who lives in the building but in another apartment.
Tinnin was charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and abandonment of a child. Her arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Thursday.
On April 6, also in the Bronx, Tinnin was arrested for punching a police officer, although the circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear.
