NJ State Police seek help in case of headless infant

New Jersey State Police on Friday released a composite sketch of a newborn girl whose decapitated body and head were found at a Monmouth County recycling center in November.

A funeral service in the meantime is planned for Saturday for the infant who has been named Emma Grace by the members of the Ardena Baptist Church in Howell, which organized the funeral.

A worker at the ReCommunity Recycling facility in Farmingdale discovered the torso in some trash on Nov. 11. Investigators then found the head and two bloodstained blouses in a shopping bag from an unidentified store in Orange, Essex County, at the recycling center.

Police said the full-term girl was born alive. She was 21.5 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces.

The infant was mixed-race or Hispanic, police said.

The Middlesex County Medical Examiner's Office has not determined the cause and manner of death.

Police, who are looking for the mother, said there is no evidence so far to indicate she was a victim of foul play, but that possibility has not been ruled out.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Sgt. Francis Robina with the New Jersey State Police Major Crime Unit at (609) 882-2000 ext. 2538 or Det. Brian Weisbrot of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office at 1-800-533-7443.

Anonymous tipsters can contact Monmouth County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-671-4400.