Case Details:On the morning of Sunday, April 4, 2013, at approximately 11:42 a.m., a passerby walking near the intersection of Awsley Court and Carrolton Road in an affluent residential neighborhood of Sterling, Virginia, discovered the partially decomposed body of a full-term newborn infant girl floating along the edge of a community pond. The Loudoun County Medical Examiner later determined the infant was White or Hispanic, measured 21 inches in length, weighed approximately 7 pounds, and had dark eyes with about one inch of straight brown hair. Based on the degree of decomposition and other postmortem findings, the infant had likely been dead for less than 24 hours—estimated at around 12 hours—before discovery. The autopsy revealed no food in the stomach and could not conclusively establish whether the baby had been born alive or was stillborn; however, there was no evidence of hospital delivery, strongly suggesting an unreported home or clandestine birth. Authorities expressed immediate concern for the welfare of the unidentified mother, who may have required urgent medical attention.