Construction Crew Finds Newborn's Remains In Pickle Jar/ FLA
Construction Crew Finds Newborn's Remains In Pickle Jar March 2, 2007 11:25 PM EST WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A road construction crew found the remains of a newborn girl inside a two-gallon pickle jar, authorities said Friday. The jar was dug up along a state highway on Monday, according to a statement from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The baby's umbilical cord was still attached, and tests were being conducted to figure out how and when the girl died, according to the sheriff's office. The medical examiner's office thinks the jar was buried within the last year. Authorities were looking for the mother. http://www.cbs46.com/Global/story.asp?S=6171621

Police Hunt For Parents Of Newborn Baby Found Stuffed In A Pickle Jar Near West Palm Beach March 3, 2007 1:41 p.m. EST Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) - Authorities on Friday were looking for the parents of a newborn baby girl whose remains were found stashed in a two gallon pickle jar during construction work near a highway. The construction crew discovered the jar on Monday while digging near Canal 26, about a half-mile from State Road 80. The workers at the time didn't know what was in the jar and it was sent to lab for tests, according to the Sun Sentinel newspaper. Medical examiners confirmed the remains belonged to a newborn baby girl and that the infant's umbilical cord was still attached. The officials are trying to determine whether the baby was stillborn or born alive. According to Sheriff's Detective Courtney Moore, the infant could be a full-term baby but smaller than an average infant. The girl's parents could face charges if she was born alive, he told the paper. According to authorities, it is the fourth case in past two years when they have found a discarded baby in Palm Beach County. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006633321

Cause Of Death Undetermined For Baby Found In Jar Child Had Drugs In System, Autopsy Says POSTED: 2:02 pm EDT October 4, 2007 UPDATED: 2:15 pm EDT October 4, 2007 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A medical examiner Wednesday listed the cause of death as undetermined for a baby girl whose remains were found in a pickle jar in February. Construction workers in Palm Beach County came across the 2-gallon jar while using a backhoe to clear mud from a cane field off State Road 80 near Belle Glade on Feb. 26. Police said the jar broke open while the workers were digging, releasing a foul odor. Inside the "Big John's Pickled Sausage" jar was a baby girl who weighed a little more than 2 pounds and was missing her right eye, police said. Dr. Stuart Graham, an associate county medical examiner, listed the baby's cause of death as "undetermined" in his report. The report said the baby was a 7-month-old fetus with light skin and curly black hair with her umbilical cord still attached. Graham said salicylates, a compound commonly found in painkillers, was discovered in the fetus' chest and abdominal fluid, according to the report. No one has named the baby, and she remains unburied. About a month before the workers found the jar, a New Jersey woman found a mummified baby boy wrapped in a 1950s newspaper and stuffed inside a suitcase while she was cleaning out her deceased parents' storage unit in Delray Beach. A medical examiner's report said the cause of the baby's death was unclear. Last November, recycling plant workers found a newborn's body in a pile of rocks at Sun Recycling in suburban West Palm Beach. Investigators named the child Baby Grace and held a funeral for the child about a month later. An autopsy could not confirm how the child died. Florida enacted a safe haven law in 2000 that allows parents to drop off their babies at fire stations, hospitals and emergency medical facilities within three days of birth with no questions asked. It ensures parents can't be investigated, prosecuted or forced to identify themselves as long as there is no indication the infant was abused. http://www.local10.com/news/14270247/detail.html?rss=mia&psp=news