{"id":269134,"date":"2025-08-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269134"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:17:36","slug":"infant-found-inside-stormwater-drain-in-perth-was-two-weeks-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269134","title":{"rendered":"Infant found inside stormwater drain in Perth was two weeks old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>T\ufeffhe body of an&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/baby\">infant<\/a>&nbsp;found in a stormwater drain in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/perth\">Perth&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;north was just two weeks old, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency services responded to reports a child had been discovered inside the drain in Alexander Heights about 1pm\ufeff (3pm AEDT) yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery triggered a city-wide alert to maternity hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western Australia Premier Roger Cook described the incident as a &#8220;horrifying scenario&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The mother of that child must be incredibly distressed,&#8221; Cook said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Those workers that discovered the child&#8217;s body were confronted with the most distressing of circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery triggered a city-wide alert to maternity hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[8339,4553],"class_list":["post-269134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-perth","tag-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269140,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269134\/revisions\/269140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}