Mummified Baby Found In Suitcase Set To Be Buried After A Year

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A child advocate's effort to bury an infant's mummified remains are being rewarded.

The body was found inside a piece of luggage during a drug raid last year at a West Side home.

Some had questions as to why the child was still being stored in a freezer at the University of North Texas. Wednesday, we learned a final autopsy had been completed and the remains will be released to advocate Pamela Allen for a proper burial.

It's something the non-profit director has been doing for years for abused and abandoned babies.

Investigators say the case is now closed and they determined the baby, Devin Stripling, was only three months old and born in 2005.

They're still unable to determine a cause of death.

Mummified baby found in suitcase, set to be buried after a year

A child advocate's effort to bury an infant's mummified remains are being rewarded. The body was found inside a piece of luggage during a drug raid last year at a West Side home. Some had questions as to why the child was still being stored in a freezer at the University of North Texas...

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[ghosttruck]

RIP little one

 

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Corpsicle

 

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I searched hoping that a thread had been created when the crime happened but came up with nothing.

It is odd the article did not name the people or the outcome of those arrested in the drug raid.

Poor baby will never get justice,

 

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Pamela Allen’s Eagles Flight Advocacy and Outreach buried two children on Friday morning. Two boys whose lives ended in heartbreak.

“We need to raise our voice and say we’ve got to save these babies,” She said.

Devin Striplings was finally laid to rest after 13 years. Officials said he was born in 2006 to drug ridden parents. In fact, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the mother told Devin's father he was sleeping. Salazar said she left and never returned.

The sheriff said the father, whose identity is not being released, freaked out because his son was stiff and cold to the touch.

“Instead of calling authorities, at the point, he panicked,” Salazar said. “(He) purchased a trunk.”

According to Salazar, the father stored Stripling’s body in the trunk for more than 10 years. As he moved to different addresses so did his decomposing son.

Deputies stumbled across the mummified remains in July 2018 during a drug raid

“At this point in the investigation we don’t have any information to indicate it was a homicide,” Salazar said.

The sheriff said they aren’t currently pursuing criminal charges because of the father’s transient nature. They can’t find him. He had moved to San Antonio following Hurricane Katrina.

Salazar said Stripling would have turned 13 years old this year.

A funeral for two babies: Boys buried by non-profit seeking to change Baby Moses law

Devin Stripling and Caleb Vigil shared a funeral Friday. Their lives were too short to celebrate. Child advocates came with grief hoping for a change in a state law.

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A second white casket holds another little boy, Caleb Vigil.

Caleb was surrendered legally under Texas’ Baby Moses Law. He died a day later. His teen mother allegedly connected to drugs too.

Allen encouraged to tackle this childhood issue in two ways. First consulting with the children’s mothers to try to make them better parents. Secondly, she is hoping lawmakers will make a change to the state’s Baby Moses law.

The current law allows a parent to drop off their unwanted child at a fire department, hospital, emergency center or stations. The child must be no older than two months old and unharmed.

“That law was passed in 1999,” She said. “So, next year we’re going to be fighting for this age to be extended from two months to 12 months.”

A funeral for two babies: Boys buried by non-profit seeking to change Baby Moses law

Devin Stripling and Caleb Vigil shared a funeral Friday. Their lives were too short to celebrate. Child advocates came with grief hoping for a change in a state law.

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From April 6, 2017

in the last two years, Eagles Flight Advocacy and Outreach has buried three abandoned babies and six children who died as a result of abuse.

Allen said she became involved in this work two years ago, when she fought to provide a proper burial for a newborn boy she named “Baby Noel.”

Allen went to court and won the right to bury the child at Chapel Hill Memorial Park and to provide a headstone for the child whose body was found in a duffel bag at a recycling center.

Child Abuse Prevention: Eagles Flight helping the helpless

In the last few days, one child has died from abuse and another is hospitalized and on life support in Bexar County.

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Eagle's Flight SA

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The mother of Devin reportedly passed away.