Story Update.

November 9, 2017

Chesterton police are investigating the apparent remains of human childbirth found in a portable toilet Wednesday, and said part of that investigation includes determining whether the discovery is related to a newborn girl left in a baby box at a fire station near Michigan City earlier this week.

"I cannot confirm whether it is or is not related, but it is being pursued as part of our investigation," said Chesterton Police Chief David Cincoski.

Police are treating the incident as an active case, he said, though it is not being investigated for criminal charges.

Cincoski said EMS personnel confirmed it was human.

Members of the Coolspring Township Volunteer Fire Department were called to the station around 10:24 p.m. Tuesday because someone left a newborn girl, an hour old, in the Safe Haven Baby Box. Officials said the baby girl, who was in good health and was transported to Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City, was turned over to the custody of the Indiana Department of Child Services.

Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Chesterton police responded to the area of the Prairie Duneland bicycle rail, specifically the parking lot off of Babcock Road adjacent to the Golfview subdivision.

At approximately 1 p.m., a passerby saw in the portable toilet at that location what appeared to be the remains of a newborn human birthing process, a release from the Chesterton police said. The apparent remains were removed and a thorough search of the remainder of the contents of the tank did not reveal any other human materials, the release said.