The Brooklyn mom accused of stuffing her lifeless 1-month-old son into a duffel bag was cut loose on supervision during a late Monday court appearance – as prosecutors revealed the baby’s corpse gave off a “strong odor of decomposition.”
Gynae Kendall, 25 – now charged with concealment of a human corpse – is accused of hiding the decaying body of her son, Adonnys, in the parcel and stashing it in a closet inside her Flatbush apartment, prosecutors said.
Kendall initially told responding cops – summoned to the scene on a wellness check requested by Adonnys’ maternal grandmother Saturday – that the infant was with his dad and hadn’t been at the home for two weeks, according to authorities and prosecutors.
She provided “varying inconsistent statements about the child’s whereabouts,” prosecutors charged.
When the child’s 30-year-old dad denied having the baby, cops returned to the seventh-floor unit and found the mom’s alleged hiding place for her son’s body, the sources said.
“The child was not breathing, his eyes were sunken, his skin was sloughing, and there was a strong odor of decomposition,” the complaint filed in Kings County Criminal Court said.
Adonnys was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS workers, and his mom was charged the next day, police said.
Kendall was granted supervised release and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation during her Monday night arraignment, the DA’s office said.
Any additional charges are pending the findings of an autopsy to be conducted by the city medical examiner’s office, prosecutors said.
She is next scheduled to appear in court on May 26.
