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Deputies Find Infant Buried In Yard

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LACEY, Wash. (AP) - A Thurston County sheriff's spokesman says deputies have unearthed the remains of a human infant from the yard of a Lacey, Wash.-area home.
    
Lt. Greg Elwin says a nurse at River Ridge High School notified officers after being told Tuesday by a 16-year-old girl that she delivered a stillborn infant last June.
    
The girl reportedly told no one about the pregnancy at the time except the 16-year-old father.
    
Elwin said the two teens "decided the way to handle this was to bury the child."
    
The remains were found Tuesday, reportedly buried in a shoebox.
    
Detectives interviewed the two teens and released them to their parents.
    
County Coroner Gary Warnock said the remains will be taken to the King County medical examiner's office, where a forensic anthropologist will try to determine age, as well as the time, cause and manner of death.
    
Investigators have yet to determine whether a crime occurred.

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