A baby boy found floating dead in the East River off of New York City in the summer of 2018 was killed, the city’s medical examiner said.
Investigators said in the criminal complaint filed against Currie that the father carried his baby in a backpack from his Bronx apartment to the river and tossed the boy into the water near the Brooklyn Bridge.
A formal complaint against Currie alleged that he taunted the baby’s mother before tossing the boy into the water.
“The good news we [sic] will never see each other again,” Currie texted the baby’s mother after she asked him where Saldana was.
A source told the Post that Currie had been trying to get custody of his son. “Sometimes you can know a person but you don’t really know him,” the source said. “I can’t believe he had that in him.”
Currie was originally charged with improperly disposing of a corpse and pleaded guilty to the charge. He remains in jail pending a court appearance on May 16.
The medical examiner said that all signs indicate that Mason, who was 6 months old when he died, was killed.
Investigators said after Currie was arrested that he could face additional charges depending on the outcome of the investigation and the results of the autopsy. It wasn’t immediately clear what additional charges he‘d face after Sampson’s conclusion or when he’d be charged.
Tried to Save Him
Tourists at the South Street Seaport spotted the baby floating in the water and one, Monty Campbell, a firefighter and chiropractor from Oklahoma, tried to save the boy.Campbell said that he and his wife were just coming off the ferry from Liberty Island when they saw the boy.
“We assumed it was a doll, and then used our cell phones to zoom in on it and at that point we realized it was a baby,” he said. They called 911 and waited for several minutes but Campbell then decided to take action.
“I couldn’t take just sitting there, watching it float,” Campbell said. “So I handed the phone to my son and went out and retrieved Mason. We did a little CRP, but he had no pulse.”
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