Authorities in a southern Wisconsin county are looking for a newborn baby girl they say hasn’t been seen since the father gave her to a friend, Green County CrimeStoppers reports.
Crime Stoppers said the baby girl was born on Tuesday in the Village of Albany and carried away by a man identified as the father.
The father told investigators he gave the child to an acquaintance but didn’t tell them the third party’s name, Channel 3000 reported.
That person was reported to be driving a gray Chevrolet Equinox.
Albany Police and the Green County Sheriff’s Office have asked anyone who knows of someone with “unexplained possession of a newly born white female infant” to contact the sheriff’s office at 608-328-9400 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-422-7463.
Green County officials report missing newborn child By Mike Leischner
ALBANY, WI (WSAU) A baby girl born on January 5th is missing in South-Central Wisconsin.
Green County authorities are asking for the public’s help to locate the unidentified girl, who they say was born at home, then taken away by her father.
The father is then said to have turned the child over to an unidentified third party. The child has not been seen since.
That third person is said to be an acquaintance of the child’s father. They were last seen driving a grey Chevy Equinox.
Authorities are asking residents to be on the lookout for anything suspicious, especially landowners in the South-Central part of the state. Anyone with information, no matter how small it may seem, is asked to call either the Green County Sheriff’s Office or Police in the Village of Albany. Tips can also be made online through the Green County Crimestoppers website.