{"id":534926,"date":"2026-03-12T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534926\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:06:16","slug":"newborn-and-woman-in-hospital-after-baby-found-in-keilor-downs-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534926\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn and woman in hospital after baby found in Keilor Downs backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"

A neighbour says they heard what sounded like arguing and loud noises in the lead up to a newborn baby being found in a backyard in Keilor Downs, in Melbourne’s north-west, this morning.<\/p>\n

Police said a resident found the baby on their property just before 8am, and that a woman was later located at a nearby address.<\/p>\n

Both she and the baby were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Ambulance Victoria said Advanced Life Support and Mobile Intensive Care paramedics attended, but both the infant and the woman were in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

The Brimbank Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team is investigating the incident and detectives and forensic investigators remained at the scene throughout the day.<\/p>\n

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Emergency services remained at the scene throughout the morning. (ABC News: Alexandra Alvaro)<\/p>\n

One person who lived on the street said they heard what they believed was “multiple people” arguing and loud noises coming from one of the homes before there was a loud bang.<\/p>\n

They said they did not know something serious had happened until they received a call about police being in the street.<\/p>\n

Another local, Arzu Irgat, said she could see a police tent set up in the backyard of the neighbouring home.<\/p>\n

“Poor baby, we are saddened that such a disturbing event happens so near by,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I wish mum and baby are all good.”<\/p>\n

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Police have spent the day examining the backyard of a Keilor Downs property. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Resident Michael Tait said he also heard a sharp bang followed by an emergency vehicle arriving outside with its lights and siren going.<\/p>\n

“I could see all this activity just next door,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Three police cars, an ambulance, someone was getting put into the ambulance … and plenty of police walking around.”<\/p>\n

He said he was unaware a baby was involved.<\/p>\n

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Michael Tait said he saw police and paramedics in the street but was unaware the incident involved a baby. (ABC News: Alexandra Alvaro)<\/p>\n

Seff Fajardo said he was leaving his home when he saw the police and ambulance in the street.<\/p>\n

“I feel awful \u2026 it’s terrible,” he said.<\/p>\n

“People were going around and checking sides of the houses.”<\/p>\n

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Seff Fajardo says he saw police and paramedics in his street. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A neighbour says they heard what sounded like arguing and loud noises in the lead up to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,18994,4082,265493,12951,44,9497,1158],"class_list":["post-534926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby","tag-hospital","tag-keilor-downs","tag-newborn","tag-news","tag-paramedics","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}