{"id":13584,"date":"2026-02-09T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/11-month-old-child-found-dead-near-flora-vista-n-m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:38:05","slug":"11-month-old-child-found-dead-near-flora-vista-n-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/11-month-old-child-found-dead-near-flora-vista-n-m\/","title":{"rendered":"11\u2011month\u2011old child found dead near Flora Vista, N.M."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5bca6051-0935-4365-8cfa-98f87e92e4a9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"887\" alt=\"Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Aztec San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office New Mexico.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of an 11\u2011month\u2011old child.<\/p>\n<p>The child was reported missing at 9:40 p.m. Sunday, according to Sheriff\u2019s Office spokeswoman Rebekah Click.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to an area near Flora Vista \u2012 between Aztec and Farmington \u2012 and began the search immediately. The search lasted through the night and into the morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the child was found deceased shortly before 10 a.m.  (Monday),\u201d a news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Office says.<\/p>\n<p>Click \u201ccould not say who made the call,\u201d but confirmed there was an \u201cactive investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Shane Ferrari said in the release that there is no threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand how deeply unsettling this is for our community,\u201d Ferrari said. \u201cWe are working around the clock to gather evidence as to what and who was responsible for the death of this child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office did not release the name of the child Monday and asked the public to \u201crespect the privacy of the family as they grieve this immense loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-b97849cb5510cf87b3f79a86c976e17c\">The Tri\u2011City Record will update this story when more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,1338,28,1130,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-flora-vista","tag-headlines","tag-missing-person","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19052,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions\/19052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}