Sheriff: Fetus in Weld County toilet was stillborn

denverpost.com     Jul 25, 2008            

GREELEY, Colo.—A funeral is scheduled this morning for a fetus discovered in a portable toilet in Carr last month. Weld County sheriff's officials say the male fetus found in a toilet June 11 was stillborn. A person cleaning the toilet at a sand and gravel business discovered the fetus when a vacuum system used to clean it shut down. The toilet had last been cleaned two weeks earlier. Sheriff's officials say the fetus was believed to be 6 to 7 months along. Authorities had been trying to locate the mother, and Sheriff John B. Cooke says the investigation continues. The funeral will be held at Linn Grove Cemetery in... [read full story]                    


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