FBI profiler believes family is responsible for girl found on Deer Island, police issue updated imag

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Massachusetts State Police have issued a new digital composite image of Baby Doe, the unidentified girl found two weeks ago on Deer Island. And FOX25's Bob Ward spoke to a former FBI profiler who believes the girl's family is responsible.

The new image shows the toddler, who authorities estimate was approximately 4 years old, with earrings. The state's medical examiner confirmed the she had pierced ears.

The girl's computer-generated image, which was released last week, has been viewed more than 50 million times on the state police department's Facebook page alone. She has yet to be identified.

Her body was found in a plastic trash bag along the shore of Deer Island. Authorities said they have not been able to confirm whether she washed ashore or was placed on the beach. She was found wearing black and white leggings with black polka dots, and a zebra-print blanket was with her in the bag.

For mobile app users, click here to view the photo gallery of the girl and her belongings.

Ward spoke with Mary Ellen O'Toole, a retired FBI profiler who says, "In my opinion it's somebody close to the child, it's either a family member or a caregiver that would be responsible for this."

She spent her entire career studying the criminal mind and Ward asked her to look into the case of the Deer Island doe.

"This was a child who was taken care of," she said.

But what happened, to this child, and why leave her on Deer Island in a trash bag?

O'Toole believes investigators may find answers with social service agencies, and probably, local police departments.

"They are looking at children who have come to the attention of welfare agencies, and law enforcement before. I  think there's a good possibility this little girls and/or her family has come to the attention of law enforcement before. Simply because she ends up dead in a garbage bag along the shoreline," she said.

And there's more, based on her experience, O'Toole believes the girl's family is well aware of how many people care about this nameless little girl.

"Whoever has knowledge about this, or whoever was involved in her death and leaving her body where they did, is following this case on the news," she said.

"If you are the parent or caregiver of this young child, please step forward, clear your conscience and help us identify this young child," Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley said in a news conference earlier this week.

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