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This Sunday, July 8, 2018, the photo provided by the Missoula County Sheriff's Office shows a 5-month-old baby with dirt under the fingernails after the authorities told him that the baby had survived for nine hours under sticks and debris. The Missoula County Sheriff's Office says the baby is healthy in a hospital and calls it a "miracle" that the child has survived the weekend test. Authorities say they have been named about a man threatening people in the Lolo Hot Springs area, in the Lolo National Forest, in western Montana. The deputies apprehended the man who said the baby was buried somewhere in the woods. (Missoula County Sheriff's Office via AP)
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A 5-month-old infant who miraculously survived more than nine hours under a pile of sticks and debris in the woods of western Montana suffered only mild injuries despite wearing clothes wet and soiled in cold weather.
The boy is otherwise healthy, according to the authorities.
Missoula County Sheriff's deputies were called at around 8 pm Saturday about a man threatening people in the Lolo Hot Springs area in the Lolo National Forest. The deputies apprehended the man, who indicated that a baby was buried somewhere in the woods.
The sheriff's office quickly assembled a research team of federal, state, and local officials who painted the forest outside the hot springs for six hours before a deputy heard a baby's cry to 2:30 am Sunday.
He found the baby face down under the heap of sticks and debris, dressed only in a wet and stained handkerchief in the 46 degree (8 degrees Celsius) time
"He suffered slight scrapes and bruises, but it's overall healthy, "Sheriff's spokeswoman Brenda Bassett said in a statement on Monday.
The baby was transported to the hospital. The custody of the child has been entrusted to the Division of Child and Family Services of the State. Spokesman Chuck Council declined to answer questions about where the child would be placed or how the baby would be cared for, citing medical confidentiality.
Francis Crowley, 32, was held on bail of $ 50,000. Additional charges will follow, the sheriff's office said in a statement Sunday.
"For all of us at the sheriff's office, that's what we call a miracle," the statement said. "For the officers who were present for this event, it is particularly difficult to know what this little baby has endured in the last 24 hours."
Crowley is from Portland, Oregon, and was arrested in June in Missoula on a fugitive warrant. Oregon, the Missoulian reported. Crowley was released when Oregon authorities decided not to extradite him, said Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jason Marks.
The nature of Crowley's relationship with the baby was not immediately clear. There was no information on whether Crowley had a lawyer.
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