**Warning Upsetting Story** Infant Found Dead On Hwy**
** THIS IS A VERY DISGUSTING STORY** the mother has been found & claims the father did it & she knew nothing about this matter..
Boy’s Body Found
A Galveston couple looking for wildlife found the mortally wounded infant Tuesday, lying on his stomach, his head tilted to the side.
Police said Jesse Zaro Jr. and his wife, Esmeralda Zaro, called 911 at 8:59 a.m., reporting a partially clothed, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed boy from 3 to 6 months old was dead of blunt-force trauma to his head.
The Zaros found the boy in an elevated, grassy area owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The scene cordoned off by police is just north of the seawall between Ferry Road and East Beach.
A paved hill with a flat top wide enough to drive on provides an elevated view of the beach and grassy area that extends some 2 to 3 mostly uninhabited miles east to the Ship Channel.
Jesse Zaro was visibly shaken as the couple invited The Daily News into their home on the island’s West End early Tuesday afternoon.
Gruesome Discovery
Zaro said he and his wife have been married for about 20 years, and were going about their normal morning routine on their days off from work, looking for birds and coyotes, when they made the gruesome discovery.
Zaro said he was he was trying to remove the infant’s image from his mind, an image he said was quite disturbing.
“I saw some legs and feet, and said, ‘What is this? A doll?’” Zaro said.
“I didn’t say anything to my wife but, ‘Wait here.’ I opened the door and realized it was a baby. There was red on his face, and I just fell to pieces.”
Sitting on his couch with a cup of coffee, Zaro was in a state of disbelief, trying to understand how anyone could be so cruel.
“This is a nightmare,” Zaro said. “We were looking to find something beautiful.”
Combing The Scene
Police took photographs and video of the scene and interviewed the Zaros, who left about 10 a.m. in their car, which was facing east just feet from the body.
Officers also interviewed a local man who was pushing a grocery cart at the bottom of the ridge on the seawall about the same time.
Trevino said the child had been dumped recently, possibly overnight.
The boy’s body bore no signs of injury from wildlife, Trevino said.
Officers also found a child-safety seat about 35 feet from the body.
While holding an infant doll in her arms, Esmeralda Zaro described how they found the infant, lying face down with his head tilted and began to describe the infant’s injury to The Daily News, but stopped when her husband reminded her that police asked them not to reveal specifics of any wound.
“The child was partially clothed, wearing only a diaper,” Trevino said.
“And it appeared to have been ejected from a seat, either thrown out or fell out.”
Police later confirmed the nature of the infant’s injury Tuesday evening.
Positive ID Expected
The medical examiner’s office will determine the official cause of death, Trevino said.
Schwartz called the woman’s identification of the infant tentative.
“She’ll most likely identify the child at the medical examiner’s office (Wednesday),” Schwartz said.
“She has only made the identification from a photo.”
Trevino said the infant’s autopsy is scheduled today at 9 a.m.
Police said they would also use footprints or other methods to confirm whether the infant is the woman’s child.
Police have found other bodies in the isolated area by the seawall, but none, Trevino said of his recollection, on the hill.
Dumped Like ‘Baby Grace’
In a more recent case, a girl’s body was found Oct. 29 in a plastic storage container that was dumped off West Galveston Bay.
Galveston County Sheriff’s investigators identified the girl, who authorities initially called ‘Baby Grace,’ as Riley Ann Sawyers.
The girl’s mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor and stepfather Royce Clyde Zeigler, both of Spring, were charged with capital murder and tampering with evidence, in connection with the girl’s death.
Trevino asked anyone with information on Tuesday’s discovery of the infant boy to call Sgt. Annie Almendarez at 409-765-3662.
The couple told The Daily News they hoped police would soon find a suspect in the case.
“There’s no excuse for this,” Jesse Zaro said.
“It hurt my heart so bad when I saw the baby. I hope police find them and bring them to justice and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
After leaving the scene, the Zaros drove to see their daughter at a Galveston school, where they gave her a hug.
“If they can’t handle the baby, why couldn’t they have just given the baby to someone,” Jesse Zaro said.
“I wish they would have given it to me. Kids are a blessing from God. You’re supposed to teach them to be Christians and respect people.”
With the discovery of Sawyers and the infant boy, Esmeralda Zaro questioned what the world is coming to today.
“Maybe there’s something in the air,” Jesse Zaro said.
“Or the water,” Esmeralda Zaro said.
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