{"id":244240,"date":"2026-07-15T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244240\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:50:13","slug":"erie-police-investigating-newborn-abandoned-on-east-side-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244240\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Police Investigating Newborn Abandoned on East side | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie Police are investigating what led to a newborn baby being found abandoned in bushes on the city&#8217;s east side.<\/p>\n<p>According to Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah, officers were called to the area of East 29th Street between French and Holland streets Tuesday night after receiving a report of a crying baby outside.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"epd 2.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"571\" height=\"300\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a newborn infant in a patch of bushes. Chief Lorah said the baby appeared to be only a couple of hours old.<\/p>\n<p>The infant was taken to a local hospital and is reported to be in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the area and interviewing neighbors as they work to identify the child&#8217;s parents and determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Officer Brian Barber at 814-870-1516.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie Police are investigating what led to a newborn baby being found abandoned in bushes on the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[104599,22825,136,138,137,5585,6111,1021,102437,104600,27035,326],"class_list":["post-244240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-abandoned-baby","tag-east-side","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police","tag-hospital","tag-investigation","tag-newborn","tag-officer-brian-barber","tag-public-assistance","tag-surveillance-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}