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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A hearing is scheduled today to determine the temporary fate of a newborn baby girl who was taken from her mother after she was found in a fifthly home.
The infant was discovered on Sunday at her mother's Salt Lake City home wrapped in a bedsheet and covered with feces.
Police believe the baby's mother, a 38-year-old woman, may suffer from schizophrenia.
Division of Child and Family Services spokeswoman Carol Sisco says caseworkers hope to have more information today in time for the hearing that will determine the baby's immediate future. She says they need to talk to the mother and find out what happened and see if there are any relatives willing to take the baby temporarily.
The baby is three weeks old. Sisco says she was malnourished and was treated Sunday at Primary Children's Medical Center for dehydration. She was released from the hospital that day.
Police say officers went to the woman's home acting on a tip from a neighbor who feared the baby was being neglected.
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