Anonymous text tipline started for girl found dead on Deer Island

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Massachusetts State Police have created a special anonymous text tipline for any tips related to Baby Doe, the toddler found dead last month in a trash bag on Deer Island.

The girl's identity remains unknown. People with tips who prefer to text can do so anonymously by texting GIRL to 67283. It is 100 percent anonymous, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Tips go through a third party vendor to assure anonymity, and the vendor does not relay the phone number of the person who texted.

Tipsters can also call a hotline, 617-396-5655 and leave a tip that way. When the hotline is not staffed overnight, voicemail will receive the message, and officials will follow up on the

"All we want to do right now is identify this child," Conley said.

Conley says the right tip could possibly protect other children.

"If that girl's parent or caregiver was unable or unwilling to seek help when she died, then any other children in that household are also at risk."

The toddler was found on June 25, her body on the shore of Deer Island, in a trash bag. She was found with a zebra-print blanket, wearing polka dot leggings. She is described as roughly 4 years old, weighing approximately 30 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, roughly three and a half feet tall.

Conley said it's estimated the girl died perhaps two to four days prior to her body being discovered on the beach.

Last week, State Police released an updated computer-generated image of the girl, to reflect information they received from the state medical examiner's office that she had pierced ears.

Massachusetts State Police Col. Richard McKeon said the little girl should be enjoying the childhood pleasures of summer,

"Instead, she lies, unnamed in the medical examiner's office," McKeon said. "Someone knows her."

An autopsy that the medical examiner's office performed did not reveal the cause of the girl's death, and officials are still awaiting results from toxicology testing.

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