Search For Missing Baby Continues

By MANDY SHEETS | Highlands Today
Published: November 29, 2007

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SEBRING - The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is resuming its search at the landfill this morning for a discarded baby or fetus.

Sheriff Susan Benton said about 9 a.m. Thursday that deputies were having a briefing on the case and establishing a work order for the day. Fresh search dogs from other counties are arriving to aid in the search.

Investigators are searching the landfill for a possible fetus or full-term baby thrown out by a 24-year-old Lake Placid woman after having it about 1 a.m. Friday in her home.

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