By Associated Press - Saturday, February 8, 2020

HILLSBOROUGH , N.C. (AP) - Police in North Carolina are searching for the mother of an unborn fetus that was found in a sewer pump station.

The News & Observer reports that Hillsborough police say they want to make sure the mother doesn’t have any medical problems after what might have been a miscarriage or an assault.

“We are very concerned about the mother,” Lt. Davis Trimmer said in news release.



A town utilities worker found the fetus about 10:30 a.m. Friday while cleaning out a pump station on Orange Grove Road, police said. The station had last been cleaned out on Wednesday.

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