Child’s Severed Foot Found Near Trashcan Outside Home In Queens

[Hellsbells]

The severed foot of a child was found near a trashcan outside a Queens home on Sunday, cops and witnesses said.

Paul Lawrence was about to take the trash out from the side of his 139th St. home in Rosedale when he spotted the bloody appendage in the grass near one of the cans about 4:30 p.m., he said.

"It looked like a piece of meat," a shaken Lawrence said. "It was a skinless piece of meat with bone. When we looked at it a little closer, we decided it looked like a foot."

Lawrence called police, who arrived a short time later. Investigators later confirmed it was the foot of a child, probably about three years old, sources said.

"It's unfortunate that it might have been someone's kid," Lawrence said.

Police and cadaver dogs searched the yard for several hours and, as of last night, no other body parts were found.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...ticle-1.973139

[Dakota Valkyrie]

"It's unfortunate that it might have been someone's kid," Lawrence said.

Might have been someone's kid? Might? This man obviously has no clue as to where babies come from.

[Robynne]

"It's unfortunate that it might have been someone's kid," Lawrence said.Idiot

It's unfortunate that the child's parents might have been involved in the murder and dismemberment of their own child.

[princessgrandma]

MIGHT have been someone's kid. Wins hands-down as the most dumbassed statement of the year. Shit, of the decade.

If it wasn't someone's kid, what was it? Someone's dog? Someone's midget girlfriend? Sorry to be sarcastic when this is such a sad story but man, somebody got beaten with the stupid stick.

If Leiby's case wasn't months ago, I'd wonder if his killer had another victim. Copycat, maybe? Or maybe someone's kid died and they just decided to dispose of the body.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

An object found on a Queens lawn Sunday night that was initially reported to be a small child’s severed foot is not a human foot at all, the medical examiner’s office said Monday morning.

“Our anthropologists examined it,” Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office, said. “It’s still unclear what it is, but it’s definitely not a human foot.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...n-foot/?src=tp

[Robynne]

Okay, I retract my previous statement. Maybe it's a Halloween gag, and they don't know it yet.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

When I first saw this thread, i immediately thought of this other thread:

Dog brings home severed foot of a child http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...oot-of-a-child

[princessgrandma]

When I first saw this thread, i immediately thought of this other thread:

Dog brings home severed foot of a child http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...oot-of-a-child

Now that would freak me the hell right out.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The discovery was unnerving, to say the least. A severed limb found Sunday evening in a yard in Rosedale, Queens, appeared to be the foot of a young child.

A cadaver dog searched the scene. Concern over a missing youth mixed with fears of a child killer.

And then science intervened. Bradley Adams, the chief forensic anthropologist in the New York City medical examiner’s office, inspected the remains on Monday, and decided that the foot most likely belonged to a bear, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office.

To minimize possible confusion, Ms. Borakove literally spelled it out: “B-E-A-R,” she said over the telephone.

“How could someone confuse a bear and a human?” Dr. Adams mused in a subsequent phone interview. “It’s more common than you think.”

Indeed, the annals of investigation are replete with tales of severed human appendages that turned out to belong to bears.

“Police: Severed Foot Was Bear’s Paw, Not Child’s,” read the headline on a 2008 dispatch from Alabama. “Mystery Solved: Foot Belonged to Bear,” was the late-breaking word in 2007 from Spotsylvania County, Va. “ ‘Foot’ in NY Recycling Plant Was Bear Paw,” investigators concluded in the Finger Lakes.

After a paw is stripped of fur and some flesh, the main distinguishing characteristics are the claws. But hunters often keep those for souvenirs, leaving behind a jumble of bones similar in appearance to those in the human foot.

The mix-up is so common that lectures and textbooks devoted to forensic anthropology often touch on the similar appearance of bear paws and human feet.
[...]

He added, “My hunch is that it’s actually going to be a front paw,” although he noted that a bear’s hind paw could also resemble a human foot.
[...]

The paw discovered Sunday night — which was in the early stages of decomposition — was first shipped to the medical examiner’s office in Queens. Dr. Adams said he was confident it belonged to a bear after he viewed an X-ray of the object Monday morning. He later examined the paw itself, which by then had been sent to Manhattan.

The paw, he said, would remain with the medical examiner’s office for teaching purposes.

By late Monday morning, there was only one mystery left: how the bear paw landed on a lawn in Rosedale in the first place.

Dr. Adams ventured a guess: “A hunter shot the bear, and may have cut off the claws for the souvenir.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/ny...aw.html?_r=1#h[TdwAsl,2]

[blacksheep]

AAAAHHHHHH, hahaha, Oh, my, oh my.

I ws the same as you guys, MIGHT be someones kid? Damn. That's gonna give me nightmares!

[HeatherHabilatory]

Stranger than what it appeared to be.