The baby’s mother is being charged with one count of manslaughter.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Officials have filed charges in the almost 40-year-old cold case of a newborn who was found dead in Mendham Township in 1984 later referred to as “Baby Mary,” Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said Thursday.
The baby girl’s body was found by two boys in a wooded area off Mt. Pleasant Road on Christmas Eve in 1984, according to authorities. Carroll said she was wrapped in a towel and placed inside a plastic bag. Her death was ruled a homicide after a medical examiner determined she had been alive when she was born, and was less than 24-hours-old when she died.
The baby’s identity and that of her parents were unknown at the time of the incident, authorities said. She was given the name Mary by Rev. Michael Drury of St. Joseph Church, the Mendham Township Police Department chaplain, who baptized her after she was found.
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