Two arrested after beer box containing remains of baby found in makeshift grave at suburban Chicago home

Two Illinois residents were arrested on Friday and will be charged with desecration of a corpse, after police say investigators found the remains of a prematurely born baby buried in a beer box at a suburban Chicago property.

Nicole Pokrzywa, 36, of Wilmington, and William Cosmen, 38, of Manhattan, both made “incriminating statements” to police about burying Pokrzywa’s infant at a property in Wilmington, the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

“Nicole and William indicated that the infant was born in a toilet, and William attempted to dispose of the body by forcing the body down the toilet drain with a plunger,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook…

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