Police said that the bodies of two newborn babies found dumped in a North Philadelphia alley early on Sunday morning had already been autopsied, according to Philly.com. However, foul play is not suspected in their deaths.

Kasmine Crawford, 9, and a 12-year-old neighbor first stumbled across the bodies on Saturday. He went home and told his father, Ronnie Jackson, who thought he was mistaken. “I saw the two babies,” Kasmine told Philly.com. “I thought it was baby dolls.” Jackson called police the next morning after Kasmine said the bodies had a smell.

“I don’t know who would do that to these babies, or why,” a police spokeswoman, Officer Tanya Little, said. “But I know it’s sad that these babies weren’t properly put to rest.”

The male and female bodies had been preserved and undergone autopsies, the Associated Press reports. A city health department spokesman, Jeff Moran, said that they could have been used for a hospital or university study.

The case is not being investigated as a homicide, Little said, although whoever dumped the bodies there could be charged with abusing a corpse.

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