MANHATTAN — NYPD officers discovered a dead baby in the bag of a teen accused of shoplifting at a Manhattan Victoria’s Secret last week, the NYPD said.Police responded to a 911 call of shoplifting at the store in Herald Square. While inspecting the bags of Tiona Rodriguez, 17, of Brooklyn, and Francis Estevez, 17, of Glendale, they discovered the body inside Rodriguez’s bag, authorities said.
Rodriguez pleaded not guilty to petty larceny and possession of stolen property and was released without bail, the New York Post reported.
Authorities were investigating the baby’s cause of death.
