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Child's Fingers Found In Dumpster: Hawaii Police Puzzled By Discovery

Posted: 03/13/2012 6:48 pm

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Police in Hawaii are trying to figure out how fingers belonging to an unidentified child recently turned up in a trash bin.

Authorities in Hawaii are trying to determine how human fingers belonging to an unidentified child wound up in a dumpster.

A woman collecting recyclables made the startling discovery on Feb. 12 inside a large steel waste receptacle at the Kukui Garden Housing Complex in Liliha. Gina Rose Vendegna found two complete fingers and four partial fingers inside a plastic bag that had been thrown into the dumpster, Honolulu police said.

"I thought [the fingers] were ginger root starting to dry out. I'm a gardener and I recycle, and I thought I'd be able restore them. So I threw them in my purse," Vendegna told KHON-TV.

It was not until later that day that the Kalihi mother of five realized the items in the plastic bag were not part of a plant.

"I knew for a fact those were fingers when I seen the fingernails," Vendegna said. "And people I tried showing them to tried telling me that it wasn't, that it might be monkey fingers. And I thought just by chance I'm going to call the police department, turn [them] in and let them decide."

Sgt. Kim Buffett with Honolulu CrimeStoppers told The Huffington Post that a forensic examination of the fingers could not determine whether the child was alive when the fingers were removed.

"[They were] unable to tell," said Buffett. She also said the medical examiner was "unable to determine how long [the fingers] had been like that."

Laboratory testing did reportedly indicate that all six fingers came from the same person -- a female child thought to be between 2-1/2 and 4 years old.

Police say Vendegna is not considered a suspect in the case. They also say they have yet to find any other related body parts.

"Just the fingers, sadly enough," Buffett said. "It's disturbing. We hope [the child is alive]."

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 808-955-8300.

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Authorities in Hawaii are trying to determine how human fingers belonging to an unidentified child wound up in a dumpster. A woman collecting recyclables made the startling discovery on Feb. 12 ins...
Authorities in Hawaii are trying to determine how human fingers belonging to an unidentified child wound up in a dumpster. A woman collecting recyclables made the startling discovery on Feb. 12 ins...
 
 
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12:47 PM on 06/18/2013
I pray they find the blood work that belongs to this baby and the parents to this baby...so I can see what monsters they are.
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04:14 AM on 03/22/2012
Is anyone on this board agree that CASEY ANTHONY is no longer news worthy and truthfully she never was..Baptism..did her poor child Caylee Anthony gee i wonder if that poor lil angel was ever baptized and i'd love to wipe that shtz eating grin off of Casey Anthony's raggy face..Ugly bit*h
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Georgina Sosa
06:30 PM on 03/20/2012
All I know is that this is the work of a MAN! I know so. Usually woman assist but men do this. I hope the child did not suffer much and that God has him holding and hugging him on his lap in heaven.
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Amie Nogrady
you say witch like it's a bad thing
07:08 AM on 03/15/2012
Does it bother anyone else that this story was accompanied by the photo of Sky Metalwala?
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
11:19 AM on 03/15/2012
YES. I'm in Tacoma and his photo next to that headline is just dispicable.
01:45 PM on 03/15/2012
Absolutely, yet another reel in by HP.
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locnar69
take crap from where it comes
07:06 AM on 03/15/2012
Hey HP why the picture of little Sky on this story?Kinda made it look like the fingers might have been his,I thought there might have been some news on that poor child.As for this story and the poor little baby girl just disgusting and heart breaking,when and if they find whomever did this I have some nifty power tools I like to try out on that person
07:04 PM on 03/14/2012
I think this wins for most horrible story ever. Since no one has seen a fingerless toddler it stands to reason a child was tortured by someone who lived in the complex and tossed his trophy after moving, but it's doubtful the child is still alive, someone would have noticed a child with amputations, so it only means the little girl suffered inhumane torture before she was disposed of, probably someone's boyfriend who got access to a baby/child and the mother is protecting him. We seem to be seeing more and more of this kind of crime. Just sickening.
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citizen of the universe
Look! A Shepards Beak Whale
04:39 PM on 03/14/2012
Poor baby.
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bmitche
04:16 PM on 03/14/2012
How disgusting. I would guess that something horrific happened to the child, and the other body parts are scattered in different locations.
03:29 PM on 03/14/2012
If someone took the fingers, then u know that kid is no longer alive. someone does not want her to be identified when her body is found. I pray for her and her family, whoever she is.
02:28 PM on 03/14/2012
i hope they find the answers they need...poor baby
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emscrs
Rescue pets.
01:56 PM on 03/14/2012
I am not sure I hope this poor child is still alive. This is so awful, that the thought of what else might someone be doing to her makes me sick.
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12:39 PM on 03/14/2012
Just horrible. Poor little baby.
12:36 PM on 03/14/2012
More news from the State Romney won.
01:57 PM on 03/14/2012
More bad stuff happening in the state that has told the biggest lie this century with the fake birth certificate. And yes it is fake as on it obama is termed "African-American" when back in 1961 that term was not used. Not to mention that the certificate that hawaii produced listed obama's father as being born in Kenya, which by the way Kenya was not named Kenya until 1963.
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
11:20 AM on 03/15/2012
You probably believe Hawaii was in the SandraFluke thing too, right? It must be horrible to be you.
01:59 PM on 03/15/2012
The term African American is not on the birth certificate; the child's race is not listed on Hawaii's birth certificate just the parents and it shows his father is African. By the 1920s the Kenya Colony was established also known as Kenya.
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11:56 AM on 03/14/2012
I cannot believe what I just read.....
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Stephanie Serer
11:20 AM on 03/14/2012
That poor poor baby. What the hell is wrong with people. Why hurt an innocent child.