Three city residents were given wrist-slap sentences for covering up the notorious 2002 death of “Baby Bones,” a Harlem girl whose charred skeleton wasn’t identified until 2012.
All three were relatives of tragic Jon-Niece Jones, 9, and pleaded guilty in December to dumping and burning her body in the woods of Upper Freehold Township, NJ, where her skeleton was found by a hunter in 2005.
The girl’s aunt, Likisha Jones, 39, of Manhattan, and uncle, James Jones, 36, of Brooklyn, were sentenced in Monmouth County on Friday to two years probation.
Likisha Jones’ husband, Godfrey Gibson, 49, of Manhattan, was sentenced to probation and a 364-day county jail sentence.
Jon-Niece had suffered years of abuse at the hands of her mother, who also died in 2002. She was known as “Baby Bones” until her remains were identified.