BABY’S BODY FOUND IN MILL CREEK CANAL

Bakersfield Police have recovered the body of a baby from a canal at Mill Creek Park in downtown Bakersfield. Sergeant Ryan Kroeker says a woman called police after she spotted the infant near 19th and R streets around 2:00 Monday afternoon.

Kroeker says officers have been searching the park, restrooms and nearby streets to see where the birth may have happened, as well as looking at surveillance video to find how the baby ended up there.

Kelli Forsch