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Prosecutors: Father of dead baby taunted child’s mother after dumping the body
BY COLIN MIXSON The father of a baby found dead in the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge taunted the child’s mother after fleeing the country earlier this month, sending her text messages from Thailand that hinted at the boy’s grim fate, according to court documents. “You will never see [our baby] again,� James Currie allegedly wrote to the mother of his dead child. Currie was arranged at Manhattan Criminal Court on a felony charge of concealment of a human corpse on Aug. 10, where Judge Suzanne Adams ordered he be held without bail. Tourists discovered 7-month-old Mason Saldana floating in the water near South Street on Aug. 5, and Currie — a former MTA worker — hopped on a flight to Bangkok, Thailand, where, on Aug. 8, he finally returned the mother’s frantic texts.
“The good news we [sic] will never see each other again,� Currie allegedly texted the victim’s mother. “I am not in the USA.� But Currie never set foot outside of the airport, where he was detained by authorities, before being extradited back to New York City. The child was last seen alive on Aug. 4, when surveillance footage showed Currie — who shared custody of the child with the mother — carrying the infant into his home in Co-op city shortly after noon, according to police. Police believe the baby was dead by the time Currie left his home at 2 pm the following day, when he was spotted carrying what appeared to be the child’s body in a bag strapped to his chest, which was covered by a blanket, cops said. Investigators were able to retrace Currie’s movements that day using his
Associated Press / Mary Altaffer
James Currie was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of concealment of a human corpse on Aug. 10.
employee MetroCard, which pegged him entering a Downtown subway station located within a half-mile of where the baby’s body was found at around 4 pm. The Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet determined the child’s cause
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of death, and Currie’s concealment of a human corpse charge may be upgraded as the investigation continues, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea. A lawyer for Currie did not immediately return a request for comment.
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