{"id":826837,"date":"2026-07-27T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:34:15","slug":"baby-missing-after-mother-and-toddler-found-dead-off-coast-of-south-australia-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/826837\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby missing after mother and toddler found dead off coast of South Australia | South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A baby is missing off the coast of South Australia after the bodies of a mother and her toddler were pulled from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Emergency services were called to the state\u2019s southernmost coastal town, Port Macdonnell, at about 11.15am on Monday after a car was found with its engine running.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-rh233e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Officers launched a search and found two bodies in the ocean a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">They have been identified as a 36-year-old woman from Compton, near Mount Gambier, and her toddler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Crews are searching for a missing infant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cPolice have grave concerns for the child\u2019s safety,\u201d a South Australia police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Detectives and forensic specialists are travelling to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police are urging anyone who may have seen a white Isuzu MUX, registration S592BJR, to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby is missing off the coast of South Australia after the bodies of a mother and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-826837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826837","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=826837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}