Police have tentative ID on girl found dead in box

The toddler whose body washed ashore in Texas last month has been tentatively identified as a 2-year-old girl, and her mother and a man identified as her boyfriend were arrested Saturday, the Galveston County Sheriff's office said Sunday.

Police believe two-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers may be "Baby Grace."

Investigators believe the child they dubbed "Baby Grace" is actually 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers, the Galveston County Sheriff's office said Sunday.

DNA analysis is still in progress to confirm that identification.

The child's mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and a man identified as Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, were arrested Saturday on charges of injuring a child and tampering with physical evidence, the sheriff's department said.

The couple lives in Spring, Texas, a Houston suburb about 75 miles north of Galveston.

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It is hard to believe people can do these type of things. If this woman does not want the child she could have sent it back to the father, grandparents or let a family care for her. The child isn't something to be destroyed and discarded.

The mother claimed a social worker showed up at her door and demanded the child which she turned over to the person. Sounds pretty fishy.

I will refrain from stating my feeling toward this sick woman.


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Here's an update on the case from the Houston Chronicle.

Trenor and Zeigler are charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence. They are being held on $350,000 bail.

Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk has said he could seek capital murder charges from a grand jury, depending on the results of a continuing investigation.

I still can't understand how someone can physically abuse and murder a child the way they did.