Police: Bone found by child appears human

A bone fragment a first-grader found on a school outing to a Bellport Village beach appears to be human, police said Wednesday.

The bone fragment was found at Ho-Hum Beach last Wednesday by a South Country School District first-grader on an outing from Patchogue.

Bellport waterfront director Richard Rieb said Tuesday that the children were looking for seashells when the first-grader "came over to me with a resealable plastic bag with the bottom half of a jawbone" in it. He said about 90 students were on the trip to the Bellport Village beach.

The Suffolk medical examiner's office said that "preliminarily, it's a human jawbone," according to police. Police said they would not have more information until tests on the bone fragment are completed.