OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — Police are looking for answers after a woman stumbled upon a dead infant during a Friday evening walk in Ocean Shores.
Police say the woman was walking with her dog in the 200 block of Fisher Avenue NE at about 6 p.m. when she noticed a rag hanging from a branch in a wooded vacant lot.
When she walked over to investigate, the woman found a dead baby on the ground, according to Jeff Myers with Hoquiam Police Department.
Police don’t yet know how the baby died, but Myers said it appears the child was a newborn and likely wasn’t born in a medical facility. Police don’t know who the mother is, but they worry she may need medical attention.
Anyone with information about the mother or baby is asked to call the police.
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Sad sad story.
NCN just reported on FB:
INFANT DEATH UPDATE: A 21-year-old Grays Harbor woman has been identified as the mother of the newborn baby whose dead body was found Friday night discarded in bushes alongside a vacant wooded lot about a half mile south of the Ocean Shores Airport.
Police said tips received as a result of media reports about the baby’s discovery early Saturday led to information that identified the woman as a possible suspect.
After the woman and her boyfriend were contacted, authorities said they learned the couple had previously been staying at an Ocean Shores motel in the 600 block of Ocean Shores Boulevard. They were taken to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Department in Montesano for interviews yesterday afternoon as a task force of officers continued to process evidence from the motel.
Charges are pending the results of an autopsy currently being conducted by the Grays Harbor County Coroner’s Office.
Ocean Shores Police, with Sgt. Dave McManus as the lead investigator, are considering the death a homicide, and they processed the multiple scenes with assistance from Hoquiam police and the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Department.
A woman was walking in the 200 bock of Fisher Avenue NE in Ocean Shores about 6 p.m. and noticed a rag hanging on a branch, which looked odd. She looked closer and discovered the child’s body.
There is nothing more terrible than the needless death of a child. Breaks my heart.
I agree
I had hoped never to have to read another local story like this once we moved here from a “university town” where we would have one or two of these a year.
Most states you can relinquish a newborn to a fire department, an hospital, sometimes a police station. It is a shame that this information isn’t provided to those needing to know it.
Those needing to know this are probably too stupid to even realize this.
the couple was staying on Ocean Shores Blvd – the baby was left on the east side of Duck Lake – the police and fire station wasn’t out of their way
Exactly.
From the Oaisis they could see the fire house! They could have walked across the golf course to it. We will know more from the autopsy. I only hope it was stillborn and they just panicked after the fact. If not, very sad. Were they the only ones in the hotel? How could no one hear her labor? So many questions need to be answered in this case.
there appear to be a man and woman aged 21 who ended up in jail yesterday on ‘assault 1″ charges – not sure if that is the pair or not