Orphaned Baby Girl

'Baby found alive hours after car overturns in river'

By Vivian Kuo and Joe Sutton

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/08/us/utah-baby-alive-submerged-car/index.html

On Saturday, March 7, 2015, a man was out at a Utah river in hopes of some great fishing, but instead found an upside-down car with a baby girl trapped inside. The four door car was founded upside-down in the water. Rescuers arrived and tipped the car onto its side, finding the 18-month-old girl strapped in her car seat, alive, and her mother dead in the front seat. Her mother, Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, died at 25 years old. The baby was taken to a Salt Lake City hospital, where she was in critical condition. According to a resident nearby, he had heard a loud crash the night before around 10:30 but saw nothing unusual when he stepped outside (1). If that noise of the crash was the car going into the river, that means the baby survived in the cold water, upside-down for 14 hours. The police are not sure yet as to what happened for the car to end up in the river, but took the car in for examination to check for break failures or malfunctions. Members of the mother’s family said that she had left Salem, Utah and was supposed to be on her way home in Springfield, which was about 9 more miles away. The baby’s condition is still unclear, but it was confirmed that she had not been submerged into the cold water during this tragic incident and did not get hypothermia, but three police officers and four firefighters were treated at a hospital for hypothermia.