The body of a newborn baby was discovered inside a portable bathroom on Sunday at a campground at the Electric Forest music festival, the Michigan State Police said. The authorities have asked for the public’s help in finding anyone connected to the infant’s death.
They did not say how the baby died, nor did they describe its sex.
An employee of a company that services the portable bathrooms found the body during routine maintenance, said the Michigan State Police, which described the baby as a neonate, the term for infants no more than four weeks old.
“If you were in the area and observed anything unusual, or if you have information that you believe may be relevant, we encourage you to come forward,” the State Police said in a statement on Sunday.
The agency did not give additional details about the investigation and did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.
The discovery occurred on the final day of Electric Forest, a four-day festival for music and camping. The event draws tens of thousands of people to a secluded grove in Rothbury, a village in Western Michigan about 60 miles northwest of Grand Rapids. It is a magnet for jam-bands and is known for its blinding pyrotechnics.
This year’s lineup featured the band the String Cheese Incident and the electronic dance music stars Illenium and Chris Lake.
The festival’s organizers on Sunday shared a social media post from the State Police about the investigation on the event’s social media pages.
“Forest Family, it causes us so much pain to have to share this difficult news with you,” the festival’s organizers wrote, urging people to help investigators.
The organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. The event is held at the Double JJ Resort. A woman who answered the phone there on Monday said the resort would not be commenting.
Later on Sunday, severe weather prompted the temporary evacuation of festivalgoers, the news website MLive reported.
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