Boynton Beach firefighter Chris Lemieux was out with two friends in Florida in June 2018, and as the group was getting in some fishing time, they spotted something in the water. They thought that a baby doll was floating near them, but upon closer inspection, they could see that it was a dead infant. One of Lemieux’s friends on the boat was an 18-year-old preparing to begin paramedic school, so they all used the opportunity as a lesson.
“I had a talk with him. (I said) ‘You’re probably going to see stuff like this in the future,'” Lemieux told The Palm Beach Post. “It’s part of the career as a firefighter/paramedic that we run into stuff like that. He understood what I was saying. I made sure he was OK.”
“It just blows my mind that you see stuff like that,” he continued. “You think, how the heck could somebody do something? I don’t know the situation, but you go through it in your mind. How’d it happen?”
Police believed Baby June was Black, Hispanic/Latino, or multiracial because of her dark skin. However, they aren’t ruling out that she may be white. They completed DNA testing to get a more precise read of her potential ethnic background. She wasn’t wearing any clothing when she was found, and investigators tried to figure out how long she’d been in the water.