Police Suspect "Ritual"

Apparently, the body of a 2-year-old washed up in Connecticut. The really notable detail of the story, however, is that as far as anyone knew, the girl had already been buried in a cemetery after dying of natural causes, Fox News reports.

What's up with that? No one seems to know. But that didn't stop local police from labeling it "as a ritualistic sort of thing," and naming religions like Palo Mayombe and Santeria.

Unfortunately, the police don't seem to be releasing any details that would actually suggest why those religions would be suspected. I understand that police investigations often need to keep secrets, but if that was the case they really shouldn't be naming names either.

As the story reads, the accusations don't make a lot of sense. Religions like Santeria have absolutely no use for the body of a dead child.

Do the police just feel a need to fill in question marks with random information? That doesn't help their case, and it's likely to bring unwarranted scrutiny upon followers of the named religions.