Charley Project Blog posts that first drew this case to my attention:
Okay, file this in the WTF category
By Meaghan
The police in Stamford, Connecticut reported that someone stole a toddler’s body from its grave. The dead child, a two-year-old girl, was later found in the Passaic River in New Jersey, wrapped in a plastic bag. (Both of those headlines are wrong, btw. The toddler was a girl, not a boy. And it was a CT cemetery and a NJ river, not the other way around.) Nobody seems to know who did this or why they did it. If this is someone’s idea of a joke, it is Seriously Not Funny.
http://charleyross.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/okay-file-this-in-the-wtf-category/
Update on little girl stolen from Connecticut grave
By Meaghan
ABC News says her name was Imani Joiner. She was born with a birth defect where her brain didn’t develop into two hemispheres like it’s supposed to. Wikipedia says some cases are mild, but most babies with this condition die before birth or shortly after. Imani survived two years and was locally kind of famous for that. I’ve read up a bit on a similar condition, anencephaly, where the brain basically doesn’t develop at all. Anencephaly is a rare, tragic and totally unpreventable event; I’m guessing holoprosencephaly is the same.
http://charleyross.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/update-on-little-girl-stolen-from-connecticut-grave/