Baby’s body discovered in bag at Conn. reservoir

A dead baby stuffed in a bag was found in a drinking water reservoir in Bristol, Conn., a case that is achingly similar to Boston’s own Baby Doe.

A water department employee found the baby’s body in a Harwinton reservoir about 10:40 a.m. yesterday, the Hartford Courant reported.

Bristol police contacted state police, who responded to the scene near Route 72 and Route 4, the paper reported. The state medical examiner will determine the baby’s cause of death. The baby’s age and gender were not released by authorities.

The reservoir has not been used for drinking water recently and will be taken off line, authorities said.

In Boston, the mysterious, heartbreaking case of Baby Doe, later identified as Bella Bond, captivated the nation in the summer of 2015.

The 2-year-old’s remains were found on Deer Island by a woman walking a dog in June 2015 and — despite a highly publicized, eerily accurate computer rendering of her face — she remained unidentified until September, when a tipster told police he believed the girl had lived in a Dorchester apartment.

That led police to arrest Rachelle Bond, 41, and Michael McCarthy, her live-in boyfriend. The two have blamed each other for the child’s death.

Bond pleaded guilty in February to accessory to murder after the fact, for helping McCarthy dispose of the child’s remains, and to larceny over $250 for keeping state benefits she received after her child’s death.

She will be sentenced after McCarthy’s trial. McCarthy, who pleaded not guilty, is jailed awaiting an April 11 trial for murder.