Children's bodies packed into luggage, dumped in Florida canal

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: cnn

Police are trying to identify the bodies of two children found stuffed into luggage and floating in a south Florida canal on Wednesday.

"We're devastated, and someone is missing these children," Sgt. Nicole Guerriero, a Delray Beach police spokeswoman, told reporters Wednesday evening. "Someone knows these children, and we need to know who these kids are."

The remains of two African-American children -- a girl between 6 and 10 years old and a boy believed to be 10 to 12 -- were found about six hours and a half-mile apart in the canal that separates Delray Beach from Boca Raton. The girl's body was found first, after a passerby alerted police to a duffel bag floating about midway across the canal; the boy's body turned up in a suitcase closer in as investigators combed the banks for evidence, Guerriero said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/02/florida.child.deaths/index.html

[GOPNotForMe]

1. Ugh my town.

Between the situation on 95 last month (guy with 10 year old son in front seat covered in some toxic chemical and twin sister dead in back of truck) and this, there's a lot of dead children showing up in Palm Beach County. So heartbreaking.

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2. Two children found dead in luggage in Delray Beach canal (Sun Sentinel)

Boy, age 10 to 12 found around 3 p.m.; girl, 6 to 12, found around 9 a.m.
By Wayne K. Roustan, Sun Sentinel
11:10 p.m. EST, March 2, 2011

... Police have no clues to the children's identities.

The girl is described as black and weighing 70-90 pounds. She is just over 4 feet tall and her hair was braided with white or clear beads, according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.

She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark-colored pants and blue Polo sneakers, Guerriero said. The boy also was black, and wearing dark blue or black shorts ...

"Somebody knows them," Guerriero said. "Somebody's missing these kids, whether it's a teacher, a grandfather, a grandmother, an aunt, and we need them to call" ...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/fl-delray-dufflebag-body-20110302,0,4359897.story