A 3-month-old girl’s tiny body was found in a trash-strewn thatch of woods near Yankee Stadium — and her parents are being questioned about the suspicious death, police sources said Monday.
Cops visited little Genevieve Comager’s family at the University Family Residence, a transitional housing shelter, about 8 p.m. Sunday after a concerned relative called 911 asking for a wellness check.
When police arrived at the building on University Ave. near W. 165th St. they quickly realized the infant was not with her 23-year-old father and 20-year-old mother.
After some questioning, a family member broke down and took the police to a wooded area strewn with trash including a broken toilet off W. 161st St. near the Major Deegan Expressway.
Cops found the baby dead in the garbage-filled patch of woods about three blocks from Yankee Stadium.
Investigators believe little Genevieve’s death is suspicious and took the parents in for questioning. It’s believed the father may have something to do with how the tot ended up in the woods, a police source said.
It was not immediately clear if the baby was left in the woods to die or if she somehow died at the shelter and her body was later discarded in the woods, a police source said.
No charges were immediately filed as police await the results of a city Medical Examiner autopsy that will determine how the infant died.
The grisly discovery was made two days after 6-year-old Jalayah Eason was found dead in her mother’s squalid apartment inside NYCHA’s Forest Houses in the Bronx. The girl had bruises to both wrists and torso, cops said.
Her mother, Lynija Eason, was taken into custody and charged with endangering the welfare of her two surviving children, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, who had been abused in the past.