Authorities are investigating after a dead fetus was found in a girl's bathroom at a Dallas high school Friday afternoon as students wound down the first week of school, CBS News reported. Dallas police tweeted that the investigation is in the preliminary stages.
After a custodian made the horrifying discovery around 2:30 p.m. on the second floor of Woodrow Wilson High School, responding medical authorities determined the remains to be a human fetus, officials said. Since the school has surveillance cameras installed on the inside and outside of the building, detectives are now reviewing security footage to find the birth mother or identify any witnesses.
However, it was a student who alerted a worker, according to an anonymous teen at the school.
"I think that there was somebody that had notified a custodian of a situation in a restroom," explained Dallas Independent School District Spokesperson Jon Dahlander. "The custodian went and then made the discovery."
"What was found was what appears to be a fetus, or what has been confirmed to be a fetus," Dahlander said. "We have been in the process of trying to notify parents to let them know about this."
Students and staff at the high school will be offered counseling services by the Dallas Independent School District, New York Daily News reported.
Meanwhile, police said they don't know how far along the mother's pregnancy may have been, but they want to know the circumstances of how it ended.
Just after 5 p.m., the school district issued a statement about the discovery.
But parent Christine Kerry expressed anger at authorities' failure to inform parents about the situation.
"I got out [of her car] and specifically asked, 'What's going on, and is it safe for the kids to be out here?,' and I was told to go away."
Approximately 1,000 students attend the school on the city's northeast side. While detectives with the Dallas Police Department's Child Abuse Unit are investigating, police ask anyone with information to call (214) 671-4268(214) 671-4268.(214) 671-4268
