{"id":170978,"date":"2026-02-09T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:03:04","slug":"newborn-found-dead-in-south-bakersfield-mother-taken-to-hospital-bpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170978\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn found dead in south Bakersfield, mother taken to hospital: BPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A newborn was found dead near a dumpster in south Bakersfield and the mother was taken to a hospital early Monday morning, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the 1500 block of Panama Lane around 1:25 a.m. for the report of an unresponsive baby found near a dumpster. Medical personnel pronounced the baby dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Never miss a story: Make KGET.com your homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Never miss a story: Make KGET.com your homepage <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The coroner\u2019s office will determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mother of the newborn was at the scene and was taken to a nearby hospital, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation of the newborn\u2019s death is ongoing. Police said no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A newborn was found dead near a dumpster in south Bakersfield and the mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,328,81963,2638,47855],"class_list":["post-170978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-kget","tag-medical-personnel","tag-nearby-hospital","tag-newborn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170978","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=170978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}