Officials Seeking Father of Newborn Allegedly Left to Die by Mother
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Officials are seeking the identity of the father of a deceased newborn baby allegedly abandoned by her mother near a Mifflin County road.
On May 15, around 6 p.m., the Mifflin County Coroner's Office was dispatched to the tragic discovery of a deceased newborn found face down along an embankment on Mt. Hope Road in McVeytown.
Investigators determined the newborn was left alive on the embankment on May 14 before Jordyn Lynn Kauffman, 20, of McVeytown reported to work in the Mount Union area, where she was subsequently sent home for medical evaluation at Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital following significant blood loss.



