Death of infant being investigated by Monterey Co. authorities ⁠5%

By Bay City News⁠14%

8/1/2026, 4:57:47 PM

Keywords: Monterey County

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 31.2% saturation with 58 hits. Analysis detected 109 faulty-reasoning hits from 186 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠5% (25,639 of 26,881 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.40% of the article peer group.

The death of an infant whose body was found Saturday morning in an unincorporated area of north Monterey County is being investigated by the Monterey County Sheriff's Office. 
The body was found the same day as another discovery of human remains north of Salinas, the Sheriff's Office said in a statement. 
The two deaths are being investigated separately and are not believed to be related. 
The deceased infant was found at about 8:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Struve Road, in the unincorporated area of Moss Landing, by someone who reported it to authorities. 
The death was confirmed by Monterey County firefighters and paramedics that responded to the call along with sheriff's deputies. 
Later Saturday morning, at 9:55 a.m., sheriff's deputies were called to the 400 block of Old Stage Road by a county employee who had found apparent human remains. 
The circumstances of both deaths were under investigation as of Saturday afternoon, according to the Sheriff's Office. 
Anyone with information about either death was asked to contact the Monterey County Sheriff's Office at (831) 755-370. 
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186 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers64%attributed speech67writer words
51%flagged-word coverage
100 attributed words84% of attributed speech87% writer coverage
0%45.0%90.0%Unattributed Quote-86.6 ptsWriter: 86.6%Monterey County Sheriff's Office: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice+51.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Monterey County Sheriff's Office: 51.0%51.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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