NYPD: Dad fled to Thailand after tossing dead baby in East River
A Bronx dad hopped a plane to Thailand after carrying his dead 7-month-old baby around New York City in a backpack and tossing the boy’s body into the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge and other tourist hotspots, police said Wednesday.
Thai authorities stopped James Currie, 37, when he landed in Bangkok and blocked him from entering the country, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said. He will be returned to New York within days to face a felony charge of concealment of a human corpse, Shea said.
The boy’s diaper-clad body was found Sunday by an Oklahoma tourist.