By Kirsten Buys
C & G Staff Writer

DETROIT — Police continue to search for the baby of a woman who arrived at Botsford Hospital July 1 after giving birth, and they are questioning the woman’s boyfriend.

The man carried his girlfriend into the Farmington Hills hospital around 1:30 a.m. July 1, according to a Farmington Hills Police Department report. She was not wearing pants or undergarments, her thighs and shirt were covered in dried blood and her fingernails were full of dirt, according to the report.

The woman, 29, told a doctor that she was “a few weeks pregnant and miscarried something small” while using the bathroom at the couple’s Detroit home in the last few hours and stated she “flushed it down the toilet,” according to the report.

The man, 35, said he entered the bathroom and found the woman on the floor, weak and covered in blood, and immediately took her to the hospital, which is approximately nine miles from their home. When the doctor asked the couple the size of what the woman believed she miscarried, she refused to answer, and both the man and the woman refused to answer further questions, according to the report.

The woman then underwent an unspecified surgery, which allowed doctors to discover the woman actually had been 20 to 24 weeks pregnant, which is considered full term, and it appeared she had given birth to a full fetus about 24 hours earlier, according to the report.

After the surgery, the woman was fully sedated and placed on a ventilator in the hospital’s intensive care unit, unable to be interviewed by police. Hospital spokeswoman Nancy Dumas last reported that the woman was in critical condition July 2 and could not release any further information without the woman’s permission.

By the time police arrived at the hospital, the woman’s boyfriend was gone and could not be reached, according to the report. Because the couple lives in Detroit and the baby was delivered in their home, the Detroit Police Department was assigned to search for the man and the baby, Farmington Hills Sgt. Jon Haupt said.

After a more than 24-hour search, police took the man into custody July 2 for questioning, said Detroit Police officer Leon Rahmaan, but he couldn’t specify exactly when or where police found him.

“We did pick him up,” Rahmaan said July 3. “He’s being held now for questioning. We did not find the baby or fetus as of yet.”