{"id":170899,"date":"2026-02-09T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170899\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:04:46","slug":"newborn-baby-found-dead-near-a-dumpster-in-south-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170899\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn baby found dead near a dumpster in south Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A newborn baby was found dead near a dumpster behind a business in south Bakersfield early Monday morning, according to Bakersfield Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the area of Panama Lane and Hammond Way just before 1:30 a.m. Monday for a report of a newborn near a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was pronounced dead at the scene after medical personnel arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of the newborn was at the scene and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A newborn baby was found dead near a dumpster behind a business in south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,154,49093,162,81947,9674],"class_list":["post-170899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police","tag-infant-death","tag-kern-county-news","tag-newborn-death","tag-south-bakersfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}