The father of a three-month-old baby has been charged with murder after the little girl’s lifeless body was found abandoned in a wooded area near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
Genevieve Comager’s body was found around 8:25 p.m. ET Sunday night on West 161st Street and the Major Deegan Freeway, following a tip-off from the granddaughter’s grandfather.
The NYPD said rescuers responded to the area – near transitional housing where she lived with her parents – but the baby was pronounced dead at the scene.
The girl’s father, Damion Comager, 23, was arrested and charged with murder and receiving a body Monday night, police said.
Twenty-year-old Ivana Paolozzi was also arrested and charged with receiving a body and obstructing government administration.
It is not currently known how the little girl died.
However, Mr. Comager’s father, Donald Comager, said The New York Post that her son told her that he was “shaking” his daughter when she kept crying.
He later found her “stiff” and “cold” in bed and panicked, before leaving her in the litter-strewn wooded area, he said.
“He told me the baby was crying a lot. She kept crying,” Donald Comager said.
“He said he just shook her and lay her down, and he lay down and fell asleep.
“He got up and reached for her and she was stiff and her body was cold. He panicked. He told his girlfriend, “I think she’s dead.”
Donald Comager, 47, said he was the one who then turned his son into the authorities after talking to a priest and deciding he had to ‘do the right thing’, he told the Job.