Overview
- Officers responding shortly after 1 p.m. on Nov. 3 to the 4000 block of Karl Road in North Linden were led to a shallow grave containing a baby girl’s body.
- The Franklin County Coroner’s Office pronounced the infant dead at the scene, and authorities have not detailed how she died.
- The 15-year-old mother and 17-year-old father were taken into custody and charged with involuntary manslaughter and abuse of a corpse.
- Investigators linked the burial site to a west-side home and learned the teenagers had hidden the pregnancy, according to police.
- A significant police presence at Columbus International High School on Karl Road was connected to the case, and officials have withheld the suspects’ names as the investigation continues.