A Florida woman was arrested for murder this week after she allegedly left her newborn baby in Boynton Beach Inlet more than four years ago.
Arya Singh, 29, faces a first-degree murder charge and confessed to the crime after being taken into custody Thursday, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Detective Brittany Christoffel.
“Baby June” was found in Boynton Beach Inlet on June 1, 2018. The case went cold for years, but detectives were recently able to use genetic genealogy to trace the baby’s father, who they believe did not know about the baby and thought that his ex-girlfriend had an abortion.
Arya Singh, 29, was arrested and charged with murder on Thursday.
(Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
Investigators developed Singh as a suspect and surreptitiously obtained a DNA sample from her, which confirmed that she was the mother, according to Christoffel.
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Cell phone records showed Singh was near the entrance for about 40 hours before the baby was found dead. Investigators also obtained Internet search history showing that Singh searched for news about “Baby June” in the days after the baby was found, Christoffel said.
“According to the other, she didn’t know she was pregnant until the moment she gave birth. And she said that when the baby was born, she wasn’t sure if it was alive or dead,” Christoffel said.
Composite image from ‘Baby June’ released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
(Fox 13 Tampa Bay via Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
Boynton Beach Inlet, where ‘Baby June’ was found in 2018.
(Fox 13 Tampa Bay via Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
Singh appeared in court on Friday and was ordered held without bail.
“When you see a newborn baby floating in the ocean that someone had thrown away like a piece of trash, it warms your heart,” Palm Beach Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said at a news conference.
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A lawyer for Singh did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
