Police: 2 arrested in connection with girl’s body found in box
(CNN) — Two people have been arrested in connection with the case of a little girl whose body washed ashore in a box near Galveston, Texas, last month, police said Sunday.
Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo with the Galveston County Sheriff’s office confirmed the arrests and said more information would be released at a Monday morning news conference.
Tuttoilmondo would disclose neither the identities of the suspects nor the charges they face.
On October 29, a fisherman discovered the body in a blue Sterilite plastic container on an uninhabited island in Galveston’s West Bay.
Police dubbed the dead girl Baby Grace, and asked the public for help in identifying her.
A medical examiner said the child’s skull was fractured, and a forensic dentist estimated her age at 2 to 3 years.
In composite sketches, the girl is wearing a pink skirt and matching top — clothing authorities say she was wearing when she was found. The other sketch, a close-up rendering of the child’s face, shows a fair-skinned toddler with long blond hair.
She is more to us than just a case number, more to us than just an unidentified body. She is very much a human being, Tutoilmondo said last month. She is someone’s child, someone’s grandchild, someone’s cousin, someone’s best friend, and to us, that is the most important part about this case.
We have adopted the name of Baby Grace because, there again, that is part of the emotional part of this case for us, he said, holding a tiny sneaker identical to one of those the child was wearing when she was found. E-mail to a friend
CNN’s Hank Bishop contributed to this story.
