Police officers in Arizona discovered a newborn who was “clinging to life” after conducting a welfare check, the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) said Thursday.
The PPD conducted a welfare check after neighbors said they hadn’t seen a mother and her newborn for several days, the department said in a post on Facebook.
“Inside the home, they discovered the mother had passed away and her baby was still alive, severely dehydrated and clinging to life,” the caption of their post read.
Body cam footage from May 14 shows officers pulling open the blinds of a window on the side of the house. One officer can be heard calling out “Hello” before another officer says “The baby’s here.”
“Officers looked through an open window and saw an adult woman who was motionless,” PPD spokesperson Sgt. Brian Bower told AZFamily. “The mother had passed away while the child was still on the bed still curled up where the mother had left them.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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