NEW YORK—Victoria’s Secret staff found a dead baby in a bag of two teenage girls at Herald Square in Manhattan.
Staff saw saw the two girls acting suspicious in the store around 1 p.m. They discovered what police refer to as “dead fetus” inside one of the bags when the girls were searched upon leaving the store.
Police would not say whether the mother had miscarried the baby, or if the baby had been killed.
A spokesman said police are referring to the body as a fetus at this stage.
The spokesman would not say whether the girls’ parents have been called.
As of 5 p.m. on Thursday, one of the girls was in police custody and the other was in hospital.
“She was not feeling well,” the spokesman said.
No charges have been filed, police say, since the case is still under investigation.
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