Billboards added to effort to ID little girl found washed ashore in bag

BOSTON (AP) — Authorities are adding highway billboards to help identify a young girl whose remains were found on a Boston Harbor beach last month.

State police and prosecutors announced Monday they'll put a composite image of the girl they call Baby Doe along with text and telephone hotlines on 84 billboards around the state.

The girl is believed to have been about 4 years old. She was found in a garbage bag on Deer Island. Authorities don't know how she died. She had long brown hair and brown eyes and is believed to have been white or Hispanic. She weighed about 30 pounds and was about 3-foot-6.

She wore white leggings with black polka dots. A zebra-print fleece blanket was in the bag.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released the image. Massachusetts State Police posted it on Facebook. In that time, more than 53 million people have seen or shared her countenance on social media, officials said.

Police released photos of the blanket and the polka-dot leggings she was wearing.

"She was discarded by someone, and the indignity of it has really struck a chord with all Bostonians and all New Englanders," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said. "And we have tried very, very hard to identify who she is and how this could have come to pass."