Bronx infant found dead in woods blocks from shelter where she lived

A 3-month-old girl was found dead in a trash-strewn thatch of woods near Yankee Stadium — about four blocks from the Bronx shelter where she lived with her family, police said Monday.

Cops visited little Genevieve Comager’s family at the University Family Residence, a transitional housing shelter, about 8 p.m. Sunday after a concerned relative called 911 asking for a wellness check.

When police arrived at the shelter on University Ave. near W. 165th St. they quickly realized the infant was not with her family.

After some questioning, a family member broke down and took the police to a wooded area strewn with trash including a broken toilet off W. 161st St. near the Major Deegan Expressway and about three blocks from Yankee Stadium.

Cops found the baby dead and little Genevieve’s parents were taken in for questioning.

It was not immediately clear if the baby was left in the woods to die or if she died at the shelter somehow and her body was later discarded in the woods, a police source said.

No charges were immediately filed as police await the results of a city Medical Examiner autopsy that will determine how the infant died.

The grisly discovery happened two days after 6-year-old Jalayah Eason was found dead in her mother’s squalid apartment inside NYCHA’s Forest Houses in the Bronx. The girl had bruises to both wrists and torso, cops said.

Her mother, Lynija Eason, was taken into custody and charged with endangering the welfare of her two surviving children, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, who had been abused in the past.

An initial autopsy was performed on little Jalayah but further testing is needed before it can be determined how Jalayah died, a spokeswoman for the city Medical Examiner said.