Kansas police find decomposing body of adopted 6-year-old girl who died 4 years ago in familys yard
Authorities found and identified the decomposing body belonging to a young Kansas girl in the backyard of her adopted family’s home, where it had been slowly rotting since her death four years ago, investigators said.Rose Hill police officers discovered the child’s remains while responding to an unrelated call to the family’s home earlier this month and on Friday, the department announced that the body was identified as Kennedy Jean Schroer, who would have been around 6 years old when she originally died in November 2020.
The Sedgwick County Forensic Science Center, which made the ID, was unable to determine a cause of death due to the decomposition of the body.Police said the forensic preliminary report noted no visible injuries.Officers had gone to Kennedy’s family’s home on Sept.
10 to respond to a report of an adult there possibly barricaded and threatening to harm themself, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.While they were at the home, “information was developed of a past homicide” and they uncovered human remains in the backyard, Rose Hill police chief Taylor Parlier said, according to the local paper.
Police have not made any arrests in the case yet, sparking calls for justice from Kennedy’s biological mother.“We understand that many in the public might be confused how an arrest in this case has notbeen made.That is completely understandable,” the Rose Hill Police Department said in a press release.
“What we would like to convey is that we have one chance to gather as much information as possible, to find out what happened to this child and to tell her story.While we understand the desire to hold persons accountable, we need to get this correct and not fast.”The department says releasing too much information may appear to implicate some people who were not involved.
Police said that Kennedy’s adoptive parents have been forthcoming with investigators so far.Christa Helm, who claims to be Kennedy’s biological mother, told KS...