{"id":244358,"date":"2026-07-15T22:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:40:42","slug":"abandoned-newborn-baby-found-outside-east-erie-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244358\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned newborn baby found outside east Erie home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An infant, just hours after being born, was found abandoned outside in a bush in the City of Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just after midnight, Erie police responded to a call in the 100 block of East 29th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Man shot multiple times while riding electric bike, in critical condition;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/man-shot-multiple-times-while-riding-electric-bike-in-critical-condition\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Man shot multiple times while riding electric bike, in critical condition\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents heard cries of a baby and found the child completely undressed in a bush between houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The child was immediately sent to the hospital and according to police, is in good health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Pennsylvania has a safe haven law. We obviously want to put that out there. No questions asked. An individual can bring a child to a police officer or a working fireman or a hospital. Obviously, that&#8217;s what you should do as long as the child is in good health; there&#8217;s really no questions asked,&#8221; said Chief of the City of Erie Police Rick Lorah<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you have information, police are asking you to call Detective Sergeant Brian Barber at 814-870-1516.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An infant, just hours after being born, was found abandoned outside in a bush in the City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-244358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244358","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=244358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}