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LORAIN, Ohio -- A grieving mother in Ohio filed a police report Tuesday, August 30th after Mercy Hospital reportedly lost the remains of her stillborn daughter.
According to the police report, Shadaria Whitfield, the infant's mother, gave birth to the baby girl on August 20th.
The baby was delivered at six months and deceased prior to birth. Whitfield made the police report on Tuesday, August 30th at 9:00 a.m. after hearing that the hospital misplaced the baby's remains.
"My granddaughter called and said 'Grandma, they lost my baby,'" said Pearlean Bohannan. "The funeral home was supposed to pick the baby up -- but as far as she knows, they went three times to pick the baby up, and they couldn't find the baby. As of Monday, I believe they told her that maybe it was sent out through the laundry -- washed up."
The report described the incident as a suspicious matter. Cleveland 19 sources said officials plan to search a landfill for the misplaced remains.
It is rare for a hospital to lose the body of a stillborn, but there have been other reports of this happening. Last September a similar situation occurred at UC Medical Center in Cincinnati.
Mercy Hospital offered its condolences to the stillborn baby's family in the following statement received Tuesday evening:
Mercy has not said what standard hospital policy is in these cases.