{"id":691422,"date":"2026-05-24T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:18:11","slug":"halifax-police-say-missing-newborn-found-dead-2-people-charged-halifax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691422\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax police say missing newborn found dead, 2 people charged &#8211; Halifax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Halifax police say the search for a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11861933\/missing-newborn-halifax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">missing newborn baby<\/a> has led to the discovery of human infant remains, with two people being charged in connection with the child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said they were redirected on Sunday to Prospect Road and the surrounding area after they received new information, finding the remains at about 3:20 p.m. in a wooded area off of Old Coach Road.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy by the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service will be conducted to determine cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called at around 9:40 p.m. on Friday about a woman in life-threatening condition who appeared to have just given birth.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to hospital and remains in critical condition, though police said in a statement it is believed she experienced a medical emergency and they don\u2019t believe her condition is the result of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Four people known to the woman were taken into custody on Saturday for questioning. Two have since been released, but the other two are now facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man, who is a relative of the woman, and his 26-year-old wife are facing charges of concealing the body of a child, obstruction, and indignity to a dead body.<\/p>\n<p>The couple will appear in Halifax provincial court on Monday to face the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014with files from Global News\u2019 Prisha Dev<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Halifax police say the search for a missing newborn baby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,252339,252203,252719,44],"class_list":["post-691422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-halifax-crime","tag-missing-baby","tag-missing-newborn","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}