{"id":77065,"date":"2025-08-18T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:18:08","slug":"infant-found-dead-in-stormwater-drain-on-street-in-alexander-heights-in-perths-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77065\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant found dead in stormwater drain on street in Alexander Heights, in Perth&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are investigating reports an infant has been found dead in a stormwater drain in a street in Perth&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">WA Police said they fielded reports about the body found in the drain in Alexander Heights at about 1pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Multiple police resources have been deployed to the location on La Salle Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers are appealing to anyone with information to contact police immediately on 131 444.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Alexander Heights resident David Bigwood said he understood tradespeople cleaning the drain found the body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He said he and his partner were devastated to learn about the discovery, having a 17-month old themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">La Salle Road is a short suburban street with houses on the northern side and a dense nature reserve abutting along the entire southern side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There are six stormwater drains installed along the kerbing.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating reports an infant has been found dead in a stormwater drain in a street in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59125,64,63,59124,59123,1348,48,17724,44,17726,17725,86,1158,45],"class_list":["post-77065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alexander-heights","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby-dead-stormwater-drain","tag-baby-found-dead","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime","tag-emergency-services","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77065","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=77065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}