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Los Angeles jogger finds newborn buried alive
May 17, 1998
Web posted at: 3:47 p.m. EDT (1947 GMT)LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A newborn baby was in critical condition Sunday after a jogger discovered the infant buried alive in a shallow grave.
Los Angeles County officials said a woman was jogging with her dogs on a trail near Alpine Villa Drive and North Lake Avenue about 8:20 p.m. when her pets found the partially buried baby, its umbilical cord still attached.
According to Pat Maloney, a nursing supervisor at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, the 1-day old boy was in the neonatal intensive care unit in critical condition.
Maloney said the full-term baby had low blood pressure, and medical personnel were trying to stabilize it.
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