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A 6-month-old baby girl whose body was found in a Bronx apartment bathtub 18 months ago drowned, officials said Thursday.

Dalilah Crespo was unconscious and unresponsive in the tub when cops responded to her third-floor apartment on Calhoun Avenue in NYCHA’s Throggs Neck Houses just after 9 p.m. April 3, 2022, police said. 

She was pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center. 


  The death of a 6-month-old Bronx girl, found inside her apartment’s bathtub last year, has been ruled a homicide by drowning. Google Maps The death of a 6-month-old Bronx girl, found inside her apartment’s bathtub last year, has been ruled a homicide by drowning. Google Maps

The city medical examiner’s office confirmed Thursday that baby Dalilah had drowned and that her death was ruled a homicide. 

No arrests had been made by Thursday afternoon.

The circumstances of the drowning remain unclear.

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